Might be kind of related. Some years back I worked delivery at Lowe's. We would sometimes replace appliances that had an issue and were under our warranty still

Might be kind of related. Some years back I worked delivery at Lowe's. We would sometimes replace appliances that had an issue and were under our warranty still. For Samsung and LG appliances if there was any issue at all the manufacturer would generally tell us to junk it. So we would load up perfectly good $4000 fridges with a noisy ice maker into the junker trailer and they would be sold for scrap. I don't know if these things were so cheap to produce that it wasn't worth repairing or maybe the shipping was too high but I got the impression that they're selling way overpriced cheap junk that isn't meant to last.