I get this. I’m the director of a small tech company, market forces demand that I just do more work instead, but sometimes some trivial 2$ device breaks and it personally offends me.

So I re-engineer it so it’s rated for 100+ years or whatever. I get the boards made in the factory, assemble with hot-air rework, and write the firmware myself. Sometimes it costs me a week, but it produces the things I’m most happy with.

Clients just want cheap stuff done poorly by tomorrow. If you want art, you’ve got to be your own customer :(