Aqueon tanks have gone up in quality in my experience not down. The glass is now more likely to be cut evenly without overlap in the corners and the silicone seams are at least straight now whereas before they were goopy.
Anyway, I said this in another thread recently but I will say it here as well. Most of the problems people have with these tanks are that they either 1) don't put them on a flat surface (note, flat, not level) and/or 2) they put a mat or Styrofoam under a rimmed tank which puts pressure on places that's not designed to have pressure. Mats are for rimless tanks, not rimmed.
A lot of people are also building their own stands now and frankly, doing a terrible job of it. When their tank bursts a seam after 6 months they blame the tank maker as opposed to themselves for making an uneven stand. Or they measure and check for flatness in their garage where they built the stand. Then bring it into their house and don't check again, not realizing their floors in their house are not flat and their stand will torque to follow that pattern. etc.
