Ok stop it with the PHOBIA crap! Today everyone that doesn't like what someone else says, accuses them of being ****-Phobic. It's just another form of hate-speech and it's time that people started calling out the "Phobia" shouting bullies.
That said, you're right a new car today is "better" than a car built in 2005. But only because a 2005 year model car is 18 years older! If I could get one I would take a one year old 2005 car over the same model car built 2022/2023 every time. In the first place, a 2005 car was much cheaper than 2023 model cars, even allowing for inflation. Also reliability by itself isn't a accuarate measure of how good a car is; it's also about many other issues such as the complexity of the car and the ability of the owner being to troubleshoot and repair it themselves. Also the availability of service information and of repair parts. Anyone that's read this forum has heard of people that can't get critically needed parts such as Cali approved catalytic convertors for over 2 years! Add in the fact, that many drivers HATE the flat screen computer driven controls and all of the on-board Nanny systems and other obnoxious "features" such as the Kill-The-engine-at-every-stoplight.