Such cases can often be mitigated by disk partitioning and consistently storing valuable data files (or copies of them) on a different partition from the replaceable OS system files.

In 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele, men at the front understood that at this stage to lose a horse was worse than losing a man because after all, men were replaceable while horses weren't.

You can have regenerative braking you can have drive by wire you can have replaceable body shapes it's a little thing that starts with a hybrid, but it can lead to a whole new era of the car.