The trunk light on my XJ would only turn off when the brake lights turned on

the dash lights are on the same circuit as the tail lights

Enguneers.

I'm amazed the displays outlasted the transmissions.

The wave, the hair, the mysteriously absent dashboard.

Analogue gauges still break. Even aircraft use digital displays these days, including on standby instruments. The issue is quality. If it's built like garbage, it's going to break more quickly and more frequently.

Displays on connected cars are just more susceptible as companies can push broken OTA updates that should never have passed QA, if QA even exists, but again that's a quality issue.

Clearly you've never owned a car with a broken speedometer cable, or bad ground for the instrument cluster. Or a GM vehicle in the late 90s with the stepper motor issues that caused your cluster to throw a rave when they went bad. They don't dissappear, but they certainly don't work properly.

Analog gauges used to break. On Chryslers they used to catch fire. Doesn't matter what Stellantis does, Americans have an endless appetite for shit vehicles.

I mean, I really sincerely adore the digital gauge I'm my 2012 Honda

It's just a led "8 segment" display with a few extra segments to make the numerals look really nice. No fancy graphics logic, and I've gotten really spoiled by it, now if I drive anything else I'll miss it lol

But mine doesn't "disappear" because it's an old Honda and they designed it in a way that isn't dumb 😅

No no, we need a digital representation of analog gauges!

Every Stellantis vehicle is a shitbox.

Jeep is one of many brands under Stellantis.