I'm a strongly DIY sort of person, but I do think we'll inevitably go that direction. Think of cars. Once, repairing your own car was a very valuable skill beca

I'm a strongly DIY sort of person, but I do think we'll inevitably go that direction. Think of cars. Once, repairing your own car was a very valuable skill because they broke all the time. Now, they still break, but it's so rare and so complicated that it's not worth developing that skillset for most. You could look at it from a different angle- a certain degree of reliability is a core feature for most products. We tolerate poor reliability when a new product category completely outmodes another (cars vs horses, computers vs typewriters) but as the new product matures, consumers as a group quickly shift to preferring reliability over bleeding edge performance.