I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Mostly nothing is engineered to be repairable. It is engineered to be replaceable after the warranty ends, if anything.
Cars, electronics, appliances, etc. it USED to be everything was repairable. Then time passed but you could still find some things meant to be repaired, but with a higher cost outlay at the beginning (you paid for the repairability- high end autos, plumbing fixtures, electronics of all stripes, appliances etc.)
Even that is disappearing. A high end auto is now not only more costly, but is less repairable that it used to be. Appliances, too.
I think some of it has to do with things becoming more modular - a circuit board is no longer individual components combined to do something - a frequency doubler, a bridge rectifier, an audio amplifier. Those circuits are now duplicated with individual SOCs and larger modules that are now just dropped into place instead.
Most of us could be taught to replace multiple individual thru-hole parts on a PCB with a decent handheld iron and some solder/flux. Regardless of current skill level. Things now require microscopes, o-scopes, logic analyzers and more.
It isn't just electronic complication that has caused this- cost engineering by MBAs ns search of next statement's profit gains, draconian laws put in place by lobbyists with their own pocketbooks in mind to prevent repairability... it's a lot. I'm not even sure what my point is, beyond that it sucks I can fix less and less of my own shit as time passes, despite my skillset increasing w time.
That lower control arm is not meant to be fixed it is meant to be replaced. It may not necessarily be intention but it sure is a nice added bonus for FoMoCo. Stamped steel versus forged or milled.