OnePlus is a company that had great promise as a startup and early developed company, back then they were innovating and bringing things to the market at a price no one else was. Now they are trying to break into the high end $700+ phone market, and with the reemergence of Google into that already saturated market a few years ago with the new Pixels, that's a very tough market to break into.

This commercial just comes off as a way for them to justify cutting costs on IP resistance rating.