Sure digital servos break just as easily as analog servos. I have 3 helis right now a POS Blade CX, a T-Rex and a Raptor 50. I cannot afford another heli and my kids want to learn to ly helis. My 9 year old daughter has ben flying planes fo 4 years now. So she is learning on my helis. These are on hand and much cheaper to learn on than buying another heli at $700 plus for anything decent.

There's no arguing that a product that's paid for is cheaper than a prout not yet paid for. Let's also not forget that with the help of sims an poper maintenance crashing doesn't have to happen while learning. It certainly didn't with me. In fact I was on flight 48 when I first damaged my Raptor 50 and that was on the ground, I caused a boom strike following an auto by using too much negative pitch to hold it down due to the high winds.