What twelve months did to it
Office chair reviews are almost always written in the first fortnight, which is exactly the period in which every chair feels fine. The interesting questions arrive at month eight: has the foam taken a set, does the mechanism still hold its tension, has anything started to make a noise that you notice at 4pm.
The answers here are no, yes, and briefly. The seat foam has compressed slightly and stopped. The tilt tension is where it was. The squeak turned out to be an arm bolt that had backed off a quarter-turn, which is the sort of thing a chair with accessible fasteners lets you fix in the room rather than by shipping it somewhere.
The bottom line
The recommendation stands, with the same caveat it had a year ago: the arms are the weak point, and if you rest on them heavily you will notice.
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