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It's called Survivorship Bias and it's very real.
There's another part of "they don't build them like they used to" that people don't talk about, and that is the "Good 'Ol" products like toasters and tools from back in the day were an expensive luxury compared to what you can get today. If you shell out the money, you'll get a darn good product that will last, but today's technological advances have made it very cheap and easy to make a not-quite-as-good product that will still last a decent while.
There's also planned obsolescence and I'm not gonna get into that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Great illustration
Recently, I replayed an old Gameboy game that I got out of a bargain bin of some sort in the 90s. The game was bizarre and bad in ways only a bargain bin game could be, but like...it still works. The cart still works and nothing about the game was actually buggy. It just remains a not good game.
Unfortunately even the high end expensive stuff is still built for planned obsolescence in mind, still built to break after 10 years and the only options available, whether you go to big box store, specialty places, or direct from manufacturers, all have planned obsolescence built in and are more expensive to repair than just buying a new one. The $400 dishwasher and the $1400 dishwasher will still both only last 10 years.