Right, good point. My main argument is that the consumer electronics as small systems are so so sooo optimized for cost. (Which is good, people can afford them

Right, good point. My main argument is that the consumer electronics as small systems are so so sooo optimized for cost. (Which is good, people can afford them.) But somewhere along the way the components inside them stopped being useful by themselves. (Of course a direct consequence of optimization of integrated parts.) This basically resulted in custom parts for custom systems. And now as software is eating everything custom software is also part of the system. (Though at least it brought back some general parts!) Safety as a system level property is still there, but completely lost in the parts. And similarly many other desirable properties have been optimized out. (Like reliability, serviceability, etc.)