I can get a basic toilet. I can get fancy toilets (heated seats and more). All of them hook to the same connectors in my home. Different brands. I can hook them

I can get a basic toilet. I can get fancy toilets (heated seats and more). All of them hook to the same connectors in my home. Different brands. I can hook them into pipes and connectors that are decades old. It works. This is just hardware integration. It's due to standard interfaces and being designed to last. What we build with technology now isn't designed to last. It's an intentional part of what we build even if we don't think about it much. It has an impact on end users (and even the environment... think of all the trash). The rate of interface change is intentional on some levels. And, it's something we can control.