It's not even the young Turks. Mostly it's your average Joe (or Jane) who
does nothing more than put gas in the heap and turn the key to make it go.

My own boss ('03 Honda CR-V, 245K miles) actually brags that he does
nothing at all to his cars, NOTHING outside twice-yearly oil changes and
fixing whatever obviously broke (like a timing belt). This, to him, is a
virtue.

My boss mostly gets away with it because of the huge annual mileages he
runs up, and because he's an "old granny" driver. But for most owners
that's a recipe for disaster. Actually, my boss doesn't know it yet, but
his rear pads/calipers are seized. I can tell because of what the rotors
look like through the wheels. Can't tell him that though...

Sure we have fun.  What we don't have is hours of having our heads under a
hood, or sitting on a cold garage floor trying to figure out why something
has gone bad.  OR...sitting in a dealer's waiting room with a two year old
magazine and a cold cup of crap coffee that was made last Tuesday, and
wondering how many hours labor we were going to get charged.   But we DO
have fun.

Hey, I got about 200K miles out of my Gremlin back then, and this was my
first car which I drove like a teenager.  In my mind that will always  be a
great car...
Tomes

Not in my experience!