Bullshit.
Any MOSFET without gate protection will fail under such testing.
For instance, any "honest and true to the original" 2N7000.
Be carefull saying BS, it could easily fall back on your art of typing letters...
Unprotected MOSFETS may be easily damaged by this handling. But even then they don't fail when tested in the transistor tester. They may never fail, or the chance of failing e.g. at high temperatures during a voltage spike from the AC Net raises.
Companies spend billions on ESD safety not because the components *directly* fail as soon as some employee looks at their box without ESD-certified glasses.
They may fail long times later. And believe it or not, for most companies that´s worse than failing before EOL.
For tinkering reasons I sometimes ordered cheap Low-RDS-on FETs from little sellers on AliExpress. They arrived in a *normal* plastic zipbag, without tape or any ESD-protection. Their solderpads and housings clearly indicated they have been -probably manually- recycled from some scrap electronics.
Most of these FETs were operational in the tester. Some of them failed during my tinkering - because of ESD? No one knows. But it would be criminal to use parts of this type for any high quality product that requires a certain reliability.