Regardless of the why and how... Phones go in pockets, bags, holsters, cases etc. Real world use most people put a case and screen protector on their phone and put it in their purse or front/back pocket. To say that someone sitting down with their phone in their front pocket is at fault when the phone bends is ridiculous. It's to be expected that a phone will wind up in a pocket. Otherwise the iPhone would ship with some protective holster. They are made to be used case and screen protector free. How are you supposed to carry it so it doesn't get bent or dropped then? The way most of you talk I should have just bought the phone and left it in my safe at home because it's unreasonable for me to expect my phone to stay in good condition in my pocket. How dare I buy a personal cell phone and expect it not to hold up to normal wear and tear. What am I thinking...
I carry my 6 Plus in my pocket all the time...as well as a bike handle bar case, tossed in my jeep, wife's car seat, couch and about a hundred other places...and it hasn't bent even a little. The way some of YOU talk, mine should be "U" shaped. It's not unreasonable to expect your phone to stay in good condition while in your pocket, and as reality would have it, the 6 plus does JUST THAT...what IS unreasonable though is the criteria in which some of you define "flawed".
This device doesn't have a flawed design, it has users who put it through activities that leave it bent sometimes...but most people don't, and most people use their phones in normal ways you'd expect a phone to be used...and go home at the end of the day with an unbent device.
Some of you really WANT this to be an issue though for some very odd reason...like you ENJOY the idea of a flaw. It's so odd, and then you get all pissed off when people defend logic by trying to force your idea on people. You WANT people to KNOW their device is flawed and prone to bending and you WANT every story of a bent iPhone to be attributed to a fault in Apple's design.
I'd just like people to shut up about bent iPhones, and if they feel their device bent unreasonably (after careful handling and nothing they can recall as their own fault), go get a replacement from Apple (who are readily replacing, because their customer service is top tier).