Anecdote to that: I was involved in a project where we had to measure certain changes in the ground and the climate above. The station which measures how much

Anecdote to that: I was involved in a project where we had to measure certain changes in the ground and the climate above. The station which measures how much the ground has moved broke. We didn't know what broke, so we called the company as we had already invested quite a bit in a new software from them as the old one had issues with the server. Instead of replacing the whole station(without any sensors, just the base station) for around 2000€ we send in the "CPU Core" and got the newest version for around 600€ I believe and it works fine. Keep in mind that the station was brought about ten years ago, and thanks to the new client side software still works fine with windows server 2016 and beyond. Why can't we have that in things like this in other parts, where space and energy efficienty is also not that important? I have the feeling more and more api,software and hardware change are just for the sake of changing and not for any benefits. Edit: Wording/formulating