Anyone who is into photography knows this is flat-out untrue. Aspherical lenses are a big deal in the high-end camera lens world. Canon, Nikon, Leica, Zeiss, etc. all have aspherical lenses.
I wear glasses and my glass lenses are made by Zeiss. My left eye has mild astigmatism and the glasses correct it perfectly. Each one is made from a single piece of glass that is ground to shape.
That you wear for prescription glasses? Unlikely. Glass cannot be shaped into aspheres without very expensive grinding and polishing techniques. Multiple glass shapes are typically molded together to make an aspheric lens. The challenge is that molding the lens this way decreases the Abbe number significantly, which is why it’s not used for prescription eye glasses. If you have astigmatism, your lenses are most likely a polymer of some sort. Check with your optometrist.
I've owned several pairs of aspherical lenses made of glass, ground by competent yet hardly exceptional shops. Only in the U.S. I found people uninterested in selling me glass lenses--exaggerated mimicry, "but they'll be so heavy!", etc.
Yeah, they are. If you only have say -2 its no big deal. I have -4 and with heavy glasses (I used to wear such) I get pain in top of my nose rather quickly.
