Generally, I've been a "Honda guy" since I was 9 or 10 years old. I've owned more Honda and Honda-powered products than anything else over the decades. Historically, I've traded for a new vehicle every year on average (that trend may have come to an end based on the what's happened in the economy and automotive industry over the last couple of years, but that's a different story for a different day). I was very pleased with my Honda products up until about 2016 when I started noticing a significant decline in quality. Before this time, most of my Hondas never required a warranty repair whether I owned them for three months or four years. Since then, they've needed 2-3 warranty repairs, some major (like the transmission in my '19 Ridgeline), and with some features that simply don't work and can't be made to work such as the automatic high beams and wireless charger in my '21 Ridgeline. My honeymoon with Honda ended several years ago, but I still buy Ridgelines because there's still nothing else comparable even after 17 years on the market. If not for the Ridgeline, I would no longer own a Honda. My previous vehicle was a 2020 CX-5 which was the most perfect automobile I've ever owned next to the 2019 MX-5 Miata that I still own. The Mazdas are clearly assembly with more care and precision. One example of this is the seam sealer around the doors, engine compartment, etc. On my Hondas, it looks like it was applied by a spastic child. On my Mazdas, it looks like it was applied by a brain surgeon.