That seems like a claim without data support. Cost, sure. Reliability, I doubt there is a difference in reliability within product lifecycle. My anecdotal exper

That seems like a claim without data support. Cost, sure. Reliability, I doubt there is a difference in reliability within product lifecycle. My anecdotal experience: every car I owned had a knob for music volume. It never broke. Other things broke, sometimes making car repair economically unviable. But the knob did not break.