Steel has been in mass production for well over 100 years and people still make the same mistakes today with new mechanical systems. Flaws often seem obvious after the fact, but that’s when your looking at actual failures. If it never occurs to you that something could fail, well good luck.
An embedded engineer which is unaware of flash wear is incompetent. It's the number one failure mode of flash and more often than not drives the design decisions around it.
If the metal structure holding the instrument cluster and infotainment unit fell apart after 6 years and the manufacturer charged the customer to fix it?
