Bike mechanics is where you might find additional insight.

One thought on your use of "quality". You somehow excluded performance and convenience and exlusively focused on "long lasting" because you're frugal.

Remember the old Zentith commercials? The Quality goes in before the name goes on?

Those old TV sets had big power transformers, weighed a ton, costed a lot. The tuners were the drum kind and the contacts had good metal contacts. Yeah, they lasted longer than the Sylvania sets.