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Edit 2020.05.20: with new conditions added, it appears sigma is onto, so all weirdos have empty heads (using the terminology below). So a generator of a free algebra in this variety (with lambda and rho also) is also a term, so now the free algebras may also be decomposable as a direct product (they are already isomorphic to a sub algebra of a direct product). End Edit 2020.05.20.

Edit: easy, but incorrect. It needs to be modified to : if there is a finite head, then there must be a finite (possibly trivial) factor with empty head.

An easy observation: such a structure with a finite nonempty head is not directly decomposable.

Let sigma not be onto. That part of the base set outside the range of sigma I call the head. Then invertibility implies the base set is infinite. If one has two structures with one having a nonempty head, their product will have a nonempty head that is infinite. Therefore any such structure with a finite nonempty head is not directly decomposable. The free finitely generated structures in this variety gives a class of such examples.

Gerhard "Nothing Up My Sleeve... Presto!" Paseman, 2020.05.19.

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