I didn't even like them as a kid. It seemed exceedingly silly to me that I should do the coloring work when they could have just printed the color - with much better results!
And since I put so much pressure on pencils - I still do -, their tips always broke off. No pencil lasts more than 20 seconds with me.
As a kid, I would routinely break off even the nibs of fountain pens - until my teachers granted me leave to use ballpoints. Not that I haven't ruined those too once in a while.
