The modern automobile is safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more technologically advanced than anything that came before it. Yet those improvements have come at a cost. For many owners, mechanics, and independent repair shops, that cost is repairability.
I fairly recently replaced a water pump in my wife’s 2013 Lexus. Much easier than doing so in my old 1998 Accord. I didn’t even need to pull the timing cover off, for hers.