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I'm not sure about that Bill, maybe I've always been unlucky, but I get through hubs faster now than I ever did doing trials, winter rides, downhill, etc.
Track nuts will be loosened and tightened many more times (thread wear), big crashes cause extreme stress on hub flanges as well as the rims, axels will have forces applied that some are not designed for (fork twists, corner bails, etc), large fixed cogs will thread through soft metal, etc.
Most half-decent hubs will take a beating for one season, but a purpose built hub would outlast them by miles... there's still loads more room for polo-specific development within all bike parts in my opinion.
To date: three threaded hubs, one flange split, one threaded axle, one bent axle, one "twisted" hub (something was very wrong with it even after an axle replacement). Three of these hubs were crappy Suzue numbers, but the others I would have thought would last longer.