Once upon a time, one could buy a cheap product that perhaps didn't look as flash as the more expensive ones, it had fewer features, but it was built just as well as the more expensive ones, and was just as reliable.
Today if one buys a cheap product, it will generally have just as many features as an expensive one, but instead it is poorly assembled, made of cheap inapproriate materials, and is practically unsable. It either falls apart or just doesn't do what it supposed to do.
Where is the manufacturers' pride?
Where is respect and care for the customer?
Where is the good, cheap, simple stuff?
