What I've noticed over the years (45+ years in the electronics repair/sales business) is that products have increasingly become more trouble-prone, less reliable, and in many cases having shortcuts and/or cost-cutting issues.
As opposed to products designed and produced decades ago.
I strongly suspect that a good part of this is due to several factors.
Inflation, lack of good design choices, poor craftsmanship, outsourcing, sloppy Quality Control, and of course Greed on the part of corporations.
This to me has risen red flags about "modern" products for years now.
People can call me a miserable, jaded, cynical old fart, but I know, and have seen the downward spiral of quality with my own eyes.
The average consumer is of course unaware of these underlying problems, and has been gradually conditioned to accept what is handed to them as fact.
I largely blame technology as being the one factor for this.
The "convenience" of easily manipulating the society by current devices (cellphones, internet shopping) has enabled this to happen, and has weakened their ability to choose what a quality product is, and what is plain garbage, dressed up in a pretty dress. - AKA Snake Oil Sales.
This website, among others, is quite informative, in it's ability to weed out the good from the bad.
However, like anything, it's got its various opinions, and it takes a sharp mind to determine what's best for a certain person.
