I wonder whether people would care more about infrastructure if all buildings required this kind of annual, public, participatory maintenance? Could a less dura

I wonder whether people would care more about infrastructure if all buildings required this kind of annual, public, participatory maintenance? Could a less durable structural design on paper produce a higher quality of upkeep in practice? Reminds me of a problem with the Kindle e-readers. Anecdotally, when the battery life was closer to a month or more, customers would forget that the device needed charging and ultimately let the battery run down. When the battery life was closer to a week, the need to charge it would stay fresh in their minds and they’d keep it from running all they way down.