You do not need anything high end for hex sockets. Don't buy junk but more than an average quality brand is wasted money, and yes I live in the rust belt and know quite well what difficult fasteners are like. You will tear up the fastener long before a median grade hex socket is a problem.
You should WANT to tear up the socket before the fastener. Replace socket? Cheap and easy. Get torn up fastener out? PITA. A lot of people don't understand this.
Remember that I don't mean to buy junk, just that in many cases no matter how great a socket is, that greatness can work against you, give you confidence to torque more than the fastener can handle and make the worse (hassle) part fail first. More often than not when I've had a fastener shear off, I would have rather replaced the socket instead. Granted this is just a generality, sometimes the fastener is going to sheer off anyway.
Back to my initial point, hex sockets are an area where there are diminishing returns on buying high end sockets, sooner than many other fasteners configs.