Well I'm sad to report that after 4.5 months my LC broke. I was taking it off to clean some dust and lint out of the charge port that I never use and to apply a new screen protector on the phone. The case broke in two places, one by the charging port and one by mute switch where the case is really thin. While I love leather cases they don't seem to be overly durable if you take your case on an off with any frequency. It feels like everytime I start getting the patina to develop how I like my case breaks. I only take it off like once a month so I feel like it should be able to last longer. So for now I'm back in my ESR case until I decide if I'm going to order another LC or just give up on leather. I guess thats one plus for the open bottom leather cases out there is not having that weak part that goes around the charge port.
Whenever this happens it makes me miss the old days of my Motorola flip phones ( Startac, Timeport, Razr, V60, etc ) that I used for ages with no case and never worried about them. If I coudl get the old Razr phone with modern internals I'd do it so fast..... sigh