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> USSR products often breathed a design language much closer to modularity, maintainability and repairability.

I think it’s just any old products are less intricate thus more repairable.

E.g. Nokia phones are more repairable than iPhones. Older laptops are more repairable/upgradable than say latest XPS or a MacBook where everything is soldered on. 195x Ford Mustang is more repairable than a new one full of electronics.

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Hopefully, brands like Fairphone and Framework have some level of impact in the industry. I have decided to never buy a conventional phone or laptop again that is not modular and repairable like this, as long as brands like these exist.

> I think it’s just any old products are less intricate thus more repairable.

Often so indeed. I suspect it was not just old products though, but also something to do with a different alignment of incentives.

Why would a Soviet car have used DRM for example?

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