Not with this specific vacuum, but I had a 2016 Hoover Windtunnel I bought that when I went to put the extension hose back onto the snap holder, the piece broke in half!
Like soda cans being made with super thin aluminum that you can crack open just by squeezing the can, they are making vacuums with thinner and thinner plastic to save money and be more "eco friendly". This results in them being more and more susceptible to damage because the plastic cannot take as much flexing and bending. You could throw a baseball at a 1990's era Hoover and not damage it, as the plastic is hard as steel.
With modern vacs, you just have to not be so rough with them, and then not be so surprised if something does break. They want it to break, so you go out and buy another one and they make money twice as fast. You also have people that think paying $80 for a vacuum is cheap (as you have people like Dyson making $300+ vacuums) so they have no trouble going out and buying the same vacuum again just to have it break again, and the cycle just keeps repeating.
