It's no secret that the briefs that have been manufactured since AA closed down around 2017 are not the same quality as they previously were. Still, it's nice to have them available, especially when you've worn them almost exclusively since about 2008. The waistband is a thinner, inferior material and you can tell the overall material of the briefs is not quite as soft/fine. Also, there used to be about 30 colors these came in, now reduced to a handful if you can even find them in stock. I'd suggest grabbing a bunch when they go on sale for 9 or 10 bucks. The old ones gave me about a decade of life, I doubt I'll get more than about 3 years out of these newer ones, but oh well.