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The damage to your digits might be due to the knockoffs. They are cheap and look like Lego, but Lego is still way ahead of them. Worth the extra money is debatable, but try grabbing even a cheaper Lego set to compare. The knockoffs haven't figured out the tolerances and possibly also haven't figured out the materials themselves, so pieces might take more force to place and still not sit as well.
You'd be surprised! I have a few smaller Lego sets (and I have tons of spare from childhood), and the quality of some knockoffs is basically identical to the real deal. Trust me when I say the knockoffs have figured it out in 2023. The real differentiator comes in packaging and quality control. It's not uncommon for a set to have a few missing or incorrect bricks, which you need to order or replace from your own collection. In the end ABS is ABS and this molding tech is literally 50+ years old; there's nothing holy about Legos process.
If you do a quick search you'll also find tons of people complaining about sore thumbs and fingers, particularly after putting together large sets. There's plenty to flame the knockoffs about, but this ain't it
Not at expert myself - but according to my sources including the German youtuber "Held der Steine" Lego is not the top quality brand. Sure the very cheap ones are likely worse, but e.g. the polish brand "cobi" has as far as I heard better quality (I mostly heard about the difference in colouring though).