Is this statement not a bit overrated? I'm running on same computer since 2011, at the time of building it I 'beefed it up' with 24Gb of RAM with option to upgrade to 64Gb (which I had not done yet). Installed Arch Linux on it and am still using it actively after 11 years of service without any problem (here I must say thank you to OSS community since it's the software that 'just works' allows for this). Now my kids use it too, and they don't put as much care as I do.

When I was buying my thinkpad p53 so I can work while travelling I 'beefed it up' with 128Gb of RAM hoping it will last me at least a decade...

Unless you meant servers in data center, and even those I know from first hand experience are serving for much longer than 2 years and are still far from being obsolete..

On the other hand I guess this might be true for gaming rigs.