I'm sure that they work well, never heard anything bad about them, but if my buddy and I were fishing and he said, "here, try one of these new "breakaway"
snaps instead of that swivel"...I'd either say....
a) no
or
B) sure and I'll tie it to my new "fray away" leader material and snap it on to this new "frighten away" plug
.....just having some fun,