Somewhere out there in the grand cosmos of infinite possibility that we'll never see is a parallel universe where the grand innovation of decadent materialism was interchangeable face-plates for all of your appliances, so you'd buy the basics and they'd be good enough to last your entire life and then some, but you'd "upgrade" your kitchen every year by buying new façades for everything. This variant of planned obsolescence continues to go strong into the current day, even with mobile devices.
@aeva The absolute most infuriating part of this is that *this is already how most appliances work*, in that the same internals get used with tens/hundreds of different faceplates sold under different brands... just none of these faceplates are user-serviceable/replaceable.
@joepie91 🙃