Never personally had a problem with an oil pump.
I've only seen one (as in "1") with a bad drive shaft in 24 years, and always run a pump because I can't be arsed to carry around a bottle of 2T with me to mix at the filling station.
I think you would be incredibly unlucky to have a pump fail on you. Not saying it can't, or even hasn't happened to someone, but incredibly unlucky if it did.
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