Isn't that what I said though? Mechanical based appliances are easier to fix.

Survivorship bias means that you have the ones left that still work, a ton of the older appliances are broken which you don't see anymore.

While that is true, you're also experiencing survivorship bias, only the ones that were built well keep on trucking for that long.

And the repair stuff, yeah mechanical switches are way easier to repair compared to something that's a mini-computer.