That's a feature, not a bug. If we build things to last a bit longer at the expense of a slightly higher cost we can save massive amounts of waste from being produced and use fewer materials. We don't need to crater everything but we also don't need as much -stuff- as we currently buy. Yes there are implications for lower income folks but that's a symptom of a problem that cheap plentiful flimsy shit isn't going to fix at the expense of the planet.