Yep. Our Kenmore from the 60’s beats any flimsy piece of junk. You have to pay a couple thousand dollars to get anything new of any halfway decent quality.
When they added the electronics to what should be a simple appliance, they built in planned obsolescence. In the fifties you could buy a water heater with a monel tank. Today, if you could get it, it would probably go for several thousand dollars. Those will last forever. The old designs didn’t have the ‘benefit’ of cost accounting and marketing interference. Stuff was built to work and last. Reliability wasn’t a concern when engineers were the sole arbitrators of design.