Does Anyone Else Feel Like Everything You Buy is Kind of Garbage?

I'm on the older end of millennials, I own a home, have kids, etc. I honestly don't think I'm just having a bad attitude, but I'm starting to feel like everything I have to buy is increasingly just a few years from being garbage.

I had to buy a new fridge recently (our old one was literally falling to pieces), and I'm the kind of person who does some research and tries to be informed about big purchases. It was truly disheartening to shop for expensive appliances and realize that, behind the shiny exterior, they're almost all the same mass-produced junk, hastily assembled with plastic parts and cut corners. Even the "good" brands that cost 25% more really aren't very good, they just have more useless and fragile bells/whistles.

I'm appalled at how much stuff my family throws into landfills, and we try pretty hard not to be wasteful.

Appliances, automobiles, house fixtures, electronics, most furniture, and especially kids stuff is constantly breaking. My least expensive car to maintain is an old Land Rover... and that shouldn't be a sentence anybody says.

Around the house, I feel like something "important" breaks almost every week and sometimes every day. Clothing is an exception because it's easier to know what I'm paying for and choose good quality.

Am I paranoid or is this the reality of this stage of life for every generation?

Growing up, it felt like my family had the same old stuff for most of my life, and most of it is still floating around and functioning in my parents house or my siblings' houses. Is it still possible to buy "good" stuff? I'm willing to pay, but it seems like there's hardly an option any more.