Here are pictures of the board Juri mentioned earlier. It seems like the deck padding was glued on poorly, because the rips appeared after the first few sessions and now the whole tail kick has come off. Our local conditions are pretty benign, so the board hasn't been abused and my previous Gong board lasted over two years with just some small scrapes here and there even though I was much more careless with it.
The shop where I bought the board has opened a warranty case with the manufacturer, but it's been 6 weeks with no results so far, so I'm not super impressed about this.
On the water the board is nice though!