Planned obsolescence.
I watched a video from England about washers and dryers and the repair guy who made the video said this brand had a counter for the number of cycles and when it got to a certain number then the washer or dryer would fail.
Inkjet prints same thing for number of prints etc
Cars and trucks are no different.
Funny you mentioned washers.
Ours recently died at exactly 5 years and 3 months because of a circuit board failure.
So if I would have bought the 5 year extended warranty I wouldn’t have been able to get it repaired.
In doing research on local appliance repair I came across a company that had 5 stars on yelp and google so I reached out to him with my issue.
He said A replacement circuit board would have been at least $350 and for another couple hundred bucks I could have bought a brand new washer.
He suggested buying a Speed Queen. Although costing three times as much as what I paid for the one that crapped out the Speed Queen brand is made in America and is well known for lasting 20+ years......and NO electronics to fail either