Unfortunately companies either don't know or won't tell you what expensive parts will regularly fail, they would rather tell you that this new product is not only the best thing since sliced bread but that it can also replace it.
What reassures me is that when I look around at companies and the products that have annoyed me with excessive costs in the past many of them have folded or lost the market leader position they once had. I just hope that the modern manufacturers start to take this in to account.
Lee
