I am definitely a tote owner, haha.
My best tote hands down is the columbia tote+ (green black). Cant think of the name but it has the X-design on the side. Has solid rubber feet, good strap, boxed ball frame, and a cool design with the hand strap. Buy those.
Seeming cheap, my brunswick totes have always held up the best besides the one columbia design. I still use my 9 year old quantum tote to this day.
Storm totes being third, but the zippers would break and then the whole strap snapped, stupid thing was stitched on too.
My old old hammer tote was garbage.
The Ebonite totes were great except for zippers.