They used to care thats the difference. And the scary thing is when you get down to the engineering of it all for having no computers no insanely high tolerance machines they were able to produce better quality products that structurally holds up better. And if you look at the steam engines some of them are geared so complex that modern engineers can't figure them out. Now it is how fast and how cheap can they be produced without falling apart. Frankly are predecessor were hell alot smarter then most give them credit for. Leave a modern engine sit for twenty years and see if it runs if you believe that I am wrong.
The guy who is constantly told that he was born 50 years to late and I laugh and say 60 years.