> The issue isn’t that the bathtub curve is wrong—it’s that it’s incomplete. Well, yeah. The bathtub curve is a simplified model that is ‘wrong’, but it is als

> The issue isn’t that the bathtub curve is wrong—it’s that it’s incomplete. Well, yeah. The bathtub curve is a simplified model that is ‘wrong’, but it is also a very useful concept regarding time to failure (with some pretty big and obvious caveats) that you can broadly apply to many manufactured things. Just like Newtonian physics breaks down when you get closer to the speed of light, the bathtub curve breaks down when you introduce firmware into the mix or create dependencies between units so they can fail together. I know the article mentions these things, and I hate to be pedantic, but the bathtub curve is still a useful construct and is alive and well. Just use it properly.