All I can say is my experience differs. The only Seagate drives I've had that kind of failure rate with were the 3TB ones that were out, IIRC, around the time of The Great Disk Shortage.
I've still got my 1tb seagate up and running from around six years ago? No problems with that but all the 3tb I've encountered all seemed to have failed quite quickly. Maybe it's the specific model that I got but the higher capacities, in my case, tend to be more faulty.