Turns out plastic is more brittle than metal, who knew

I was tempted to go get heavy duty tools right away without even trying the plastic breaking tool

In my box, two were malformed (the hole for the vertical rods was not a hole but, rather, still filled with hard plastic) and could not be used so only one of the two frames was usable.

I placed the metal rod/hanger on my nightstand and slipped the plastic "breaking-tool" loop-side down so the handle is facing up and bent the tool and the metal in towards

The plastic is not flexible at all