Induction cookers are one of these technical situations where you have to put high power electronics in a very hot environment.
The hotter the cooktops run, and for the longer non stop, the shorter the life is.
That's a known thing even in DWs, and these just run at like 160F tops.
The controls are the same touch controls as in everything and are to my knowledge not any higher or lower in failure rate. It's the power electronics that just succumb to natural causes earlier due to their environment.
The argument that high power electro magnets can't be good for your health is also kind off one of these statements that immediately makes me question the persons positions.
Sounds way to much like the 5G thing...
Magnetic fields and/or radio waves can cause certain sensory misinterpretations in your brain under particular situations.
That's one of the things MRIs actually can cause - but these machines expose your whole body to magnetic fields dozens of times stronger and radio waves in the kW range. And those effects are only existent as long as you are subjected to the fields.
An induction cooker - as long as you aren't in the very small percentage of people who have active electronic implants - can't do anything to your body.
The rounded, wok type induction burners are often offered over here in the "domino" cooking systems offered by several high end manufacturers.
They offer a set of cooking surfaces in an approximately 12" wide, 24" deep units, all the same size.
You then can mount as many of any type to mix and match your personal cooking center.
Since recently, you can even add a downdraft unit in-between the cooking units.
Includes things like tepan yaki plates, electric lava stone grills, griddles, deep fryers, normal induction cookers, or those wok induction cookers.
All of these are low volume articles, thus higher price already.
And the induction wok burners - last I checked - use specifically shaped induction coils, which are very low volume themselves as a result.
The electronics have to be specifically configured as a result aswell.