I’ve personally seen the check engine lights thrown on 60k mile Audis, and then seen the techs do their crazy TopDeadCenter plus 7 zipties locked in a Makita drill fed into the head to spin them up and break it all free... and then vacuum it all out. So yes, on certain models a lot of junk is collecting very quickly.

I drive a 311k mile Silverado since atleast 160k.. and Ive never replaced a wheel bearing, tierod, balljoint, or ujoint. I did replace a 4l60e trans and that terrible g80 locker with a truetrac when it blew up. Other than that, a lot of those items seem to be built for the long haul these days.