Yes. The common cable is made from solid wire strands and to cut costs (these are very economical items) the usual cable doesn't employ any features to keep a wire from being yanked out of the connector or to keep the user from bending the solid wire cable too much.
Nothing is wrong with the design.
Bob
I recently had a problem with not being able to get online on my home network....I narrowed the problem down to my ethernet cables...Has anyone else had to replace any cabling? Is this common or something unusual?

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