As a man who works on construction equipment for a living, I'll say this. Based on the what my customers are told, a modern machine, used 8 hours a day as intended, is 'houred out' before it's even paid for, given a typical 60 month loan.
That said, based on the experiences of my customers, the new, electronic machines that are being made today will be scrapped, and become new, even more electronic, machines again, typically within 10 years. At the same time the older, mechanical machines will still be running.
I could go on about all of the things I have seen that leads me to this conclusion, but I don't think anyone wants to read an A to Z of the Encyclopedia Britannica of the 'engineering screw-ups' I've run into over the past 20 years.
That's not to say that the older equipment I've worked on don't have some really stupid crap on them, on occasion, too, as they do, but the newer stuff simply takes the level of stupid to a whole new level. Seriously, I've read articles in an engineering magazine I get where they outright say they essentially added 10 parts to make something simpler.
It's to the point I think most engineers are coming up with new stuff now, not because it's better, but simply as a way to justify their jobs.
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