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Ah, but that's just it, lightbulbs were the beginning of enshittification. Once lightbulb manufacturers realized people weren't coming back to buy more bulbs very often, they started deliberately making them to burn out a bit faster, to make them more of a consumable product.
Do note, there's a difference between a conspiracy theory and an actual conspiracy. This actually happened yo, and we're still suffering with this sort of deliberately short lived shit today..
https://youtu.be/ulUI7JsFjZU
With light bulbs, there is a trade off between longevity and efficiency.
Efficient shorter lasting bulbs are the superior product, they save the consumer money (at the expense of the inconvenience of having to replace them a little more often)
Meanwhile, after they mastered the process of making LEDs, they were quoted to have a half life of around 400 years, meaning that after 400 years continuous use, they'd be expected to emit about half as much light as they did new.
Now what did they go and do? They ramped up the power and made them blindingly bright, yet only last like 5 years or so, if you're lucky.
And the cycle of enshittification continues...
Producing quality LEDs is a hella process. Producing shit LEDs is cheap.
There are several layers (7?) and a crack of a micron or three will suck the life out of it. Add to that shitty controllers and we get shitty LEDs. But they're cheap!
I've got a couple of red LEDs that were made for the original IBM PC. They still work flawlessly.
It's usually not the LED that fails, but the driver