It is obvious that any company that repurchases a brand exploits the memory of previous generations.
And it is obvious that there has been nothing in common between Thinkpad laptops of 2024 and Thinkpad laptops from IBM for a long time and their reliability has fallen year after year along with the systematic reduction in the cost of all components and a general drop in quality, including conceptual and architectural. There is nothing surprising here - there is a mental gap between American engineers at IBM and Asian engineers...
Although now, with the general rapid decline in the education of American youth, finding quality engineers and scientists in the USA is becoming a real problem, as is the emergence of worthwhile startups, and not cunning, very creative ones in terms of luring money (but not creativity, for creative purposes) swindlers trying to lure out grants from stupid venture investors. This is also an old "brand" - "USA" - technologically superior to the rest of the world.
Nowadays the creative layer of people literally has to be collected according to the principle - "from the world, piece by piece." There are many people on the planet, but those capable of doing something new, being at the forefront of science and technology in terms of general education and level of mental development, are very few, and this layer is getting smaller and smaller as a percentage of the population, i.e. the efficiency of the population in relation to NTP is continuously falling. Therefore, assembling a high-quality team of researchers and engineers in any company is actually a vital success for managers and new chances for the survival of the company.