you have never had an element in a toaster stop working or the hold down mechanism fail? Which reckons the average life of a toaster is 5.5yrs so we’d expect to go through about a dozen of them in an adult life time.
I replaced the last one because we lost the crumb tray In a house move and got fed up with loadsa crumbs going all over the worktop every day and the fact it was monsterously over sized for our kitchen worktop space
That was rescued from my parents house when they changed “colour scheme” in the kitchen . It was as old as I could remember.
I replaced it with another Russel Hobbs – it’s been in for 7 years – as we bought it when we moved in.
Last element I sawkilled was from my boss trying to make cheese on toast by laying the toaster on its side and putting both the cheese and toast in.
The result was fire