I agree. This mindless bashing of Japanese and Korean cars is stupid. The Japanese have done an incredible job in building in quality, and pushing other manufacturers to improve.
My dad was a WWII vet in the South Pacific and swore he’d never buy or drive one of them “damned Jap cars”. He was a Ford man. But even he later admitted that the Japanese were building great cars and that the quality of US cars was poor, mostly to do with the unions.