No, you're seeing WWB blasting ... because everyone is blasting away with the stuff at the range. The noise made it sound like "bashing", that's all.
I don't get the complaints at all ... sure you'll see a few failures here and there, it is cheap plinking ammo, not premium defensive stuff ... big deal, who cares?
For that matter, I see less failures in the WWB cheapo stuff than in more expensive ball ammo options, thus I; buy more WWB, shoot more WWB, store more WWB, and have more WWB brass on hand.
Now, it is loaded on the light side, which is a feature (not a bug) if you shoot antiques once in a while. I started keeping WWB on hand for my Walther P.1 (which is a few months older than I am) and it runs in every 9mm I own, from the KT carbine to the super-modern PPS and XD.