analogluvr,
"How does a cable get outdated🙄, If it conducted well 30 years ago doesn’t it conduct well now?"
I was about to ask exactly those two sentences yesterday. I decided to skip them, at least in public.
Expensive products should improve whatever they are placed on/with. Including bicycle wheels, clothes, and cables. Better wheels will make your bicycle lighter, etc. Dress in something really nice/expensive and you will look better. Why would not you expect improvement from cables even in lower-priced systems? If they really work as advertised.
Unless you are King Louie. He’s reached the top, and he had to stop, and that’s what’s bothering him.
EDIT: Oooops, not to end up accused of plagiarism like celander did not so long ago, above King Louie reference is almost identical and was taken from "I Wanna Be Like You" song from the original Jungle Book movie. I do not claim I wrote it myself, although I did change "I’ to "he" and "me" to "him".