You heard wrong. Look...respectfully....your didn't hear, you took 5 amazon reviews and drew a line to the sun. Rowenta is a BIFL iron and has been a great brand for years. EVERY product ever made has haters. Someone right now is in their Lamborghini Urus and calling it a piece of shit. Now unlike the Urus where 5 bad reviews vs a production run of 15,000 has a bit of weight, 5 bad iron reviews where they produce 15,000 of them daily...that has a different weighting.

Don't scare yourself with reviews. Hit the gym, take your vitamins, say your prayers, audit a statistics course and buy whatever Rowenta trips your trigger.