Well stated!
Although I’d say in my case 50 years.
I remember laying on a cardboard box
atop six inches of snow to change out the broken
rear end of our only family transportation
a 1969 Pinto station wagon.
Do kids even consider that today?
I repaired it and it worked for many years.
I never missed a day of work.
I think my costs at the time were $300 for junkyard parts parts and a few six packs of beer.
Car culture is gone amongst the young. I’ve met only a few young men who have the faintest idea about how to work on cars. One was a self taught fellow with a GED who seemed a natural (he used an agricultural exemption to drive an 18 wheeler at 16). He went on to aviation mechanics. The other was from a family where everyone was into cars. The Dad, his brothers and the occasional uncle and cousin would gather in the workshop on weekends.
That's when you could work on a car. It's been decades since many components, when they fail, mark the end of the life of the car.
The electronics in particular are lifespan limiters, worse than frame rust on older model cars.