Something which is dead in today’s modern society and mode of thinking — the hacker ethos, or the hacker technique or mode of thinking. The heuristic:

Would you rather buy a brand new Lamborghini or get a project car and transform it into a beast?

Or,

Would you rather buy a brand new iPhone Pro or would you prefer to root/jailbreak an older Android phone and install a custom OS on it, like LineageOS?