It's not the first time ASUS has tried to deny RMA service for products under the warranty period, but this laptop seems to have some serious manufacturing defects.
I don't think I have seen any vendor other than ASUS trying harder to find ways to deny RMA requests. It won't be correct to say that they deny the majority of the RMA requests, but their reasons for denying RMA requests, in most cases, seem pretty silly, mostly due to cosmetic defects, if you have read some