@TerminalAutism @digdeeper
> but were built to last for as long as possible

Literally everything was made to last for as long as possible in the 20th century.
One example, Japan has never been under commie control, and yet companies have made stuff that are still in use perfectly fine today, like trains, and you'll find far more examples in the countryside, which often look like they've never been updated since the 1960s.

Even stuff that are no longer in widespread use, like the Famicom or old IBM incompatible NEC computers can still be caught at Akihabara and can still be used perfectly fine today.

Software-wise, come up with 10 games from between 1980 and 2006 that were considered good, you'll probably have your list overflowing in a matter of seconds.
Now think of at least 4 games from between 2007 and current year, difficult to pick anything right?

However, I do agree with the part when you said that current year proprietary soyware always needs to be bloated and always needs to break, it's the type of stuff I've been calling out for many years now.
I need to go through interviews all the time because I'm a freelancer.
Companies always want me to conduct them over either Zoom or Goolag Meet.
Whenever I bring up Jitsi Meet, they just ignore it like if it doesn't even exist.
Usually they'll use either Slack or Chatwork as a communication tool (because telework), when I bring up internal XMPP servers, it's "too difficult".
And when I use a Linux laptop at a client's office, they go like either "what is a Linux?", or "are you from outer space or some shit?".