It sucks because electronics manufacturing the US both sucks and is wildly expensive. The people who are actually manning these places matters a lot, and it's m

It sucks because electronics manufacturing the US both sucks and is wildly expensive. The people who are actually manning these places matters a lot, and it's mostly unskilled low wage workers who are there just to work. They might have come from a job pallet stacking and leave to stock grocery shelves a few months later. There isn't much specialty because there isn't much industry to build it up in. You end up with a high cost per unit, and a bad yield at that. And trust me, when one capacitor value is misplaced causing intermittent failure, because a worker had to tape additional parts on a reel and didn't know that "look the same != is the same", you can easily sink in 40-50 hours trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with the 5 units that are failing ask me how I know I have many many examples lol