I think there is some truth and reasoning to your point and there is a missed point also: peoples’ desire/ability to repair broken modern appliances. An exampl

I think there is some truth and reasoning to your point and there is a missed point also: peoples’ desire/ability to repair broken modern appliances. An example of this is my mother’s cooker. She has had it for 15 years now and it is still going strong/only cost £300 when bought new. The main reason for this is the simple fact I’ve gone and repaired it when something on other failed. One repair was a power box — cost me £15 and 30 minutes. Two other repairs were heating filaments (one for the main oven, one for a job). If I remember correctly the total cost of the filaments was roughly £75. This is one example but I can think of many others where I have repaired appliances for friends and family when their initial reaction was “it’s broke, nothing lasts now, I need to buy a new X”.