The only problem with the "new electronics" in modern appliances is the price of the parts you have to stock.
Nobody really fixes the cards and they get sold at a 500% markup or more.
They put this stuff in there because it is cheaper at the manufacturing level, buying 10,000 at a time but when you get in the "1 or 2 at a time" level they get real expensive.
Personally I won't buy any new appliance with the soft pad button/solid state controller and that has me nursing a Carter administration wall oven along.
When it finally dies of something I can't replace, like the whole cabinet rusts out, I only hope I can find an "electronic" one that will still take the whole mechanical timer/thermostat control panel as an assembly. Maybe I can find a relatively new one that was blown up by lightning ;-)
