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Agreed, but I think the look rather outweighs maintenance. It’s such a simple device that you’d hardly care to maintain it. You fry a capacitor, it’s one of a couple dozen parts; the thing probably wasn’t terribly expensive to begin with, so you just frown and replace the whole shebang.

I suspect that maybe one in a thousand people have the tools and wherewithal to open the case of an electronic device and replace a broken capacitor.

Far fewer than that would know 1) which components are capacitors, 2) be able to tell which capacitor was broken.

A blown electrolytic cap is not hard to diagnose. The top of it pops open and crap comes out of it.

I figured out both what they are and how to tell if one has been blown when I was a teenager, all by myself, sans internet.

Even fewer would have the equipment to fix it and the determination to source the part. A fraction of those would have the skill to pull off a successful replacement.

I think it would make a lovely paperweight regardless.

And the last time you replaced a capacitor was?