The capacitor plague was never fully resolved. There are still a lot of attractively cheap but highly unreliable electrolytic caps on the market. Electrolytic c

The capacitor plague was never fully resolved. There are still a lot of attractively cheap but highly unreliable electrolytic caps on the market. Electrolytic caps represent a substantial proportion of the BoM of most commodity products, so there will always be the temptation to take a chance on off-brand caps. Even crappy electrolytic caps tend to outlive the warranty period and most customers are completely unaware of the issue, so there's very little incentive to spend the extra money on quality caps. In more discerning markets (enthusiast PC components, high-end hifi), Japanese electrolytic caps are a meaningful selling point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague