$260 stings but frying shutters costs way more.

Hate to say it, but tape on the connector doesn't stop snags, the pull string does?

That "no gross bristle smell after a week" line got me, because that smell is the exact reason I quit brushes. Mine used to sit there getting ripe and I never noticed until I'd scrub and then catch that whiff. Now I just keep a vinegar and water mix in an old dish soap bottle, squirt it around the rim at night, and by morning everything wipes right off. My last brush had bristles that bent and trapped stuff at the base, and cleaning the brush itself was more work than the toilet. Six months in with the bottle and it still looks brand new, no gunk, no smell, nothing to scrub.