I've been buying high end New Balance shoes for more then 15 years and never had any issues with NB shoes.
This pair is not very comfortable. It has very high reviews, but I find it to be less comfortable then some of my other New Balance shoes.
I started to get an impression that quality of of New Balance shoes is going down compare to what they had 10 -15 years ago (possibly as a result of transfering the production line to oversees)