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But look at most 14 year old cars and who is fixing them when a serious failure occurs. At least ours have significant salvage value, I sold a Mazda 626 last year of the same era in running condition for $200.
I think the problem is people are expecting 911 value retention and these cars just weren't expensive enough when first bought and were produced in large numbers so they aren't rare. The market doesn't value them and so they aren't worth fixing in most owner's eyes. As the cost to buy a used Boxster declined, more and more people bought them who can't afford to replace an engine. When a failure occurs, they feel emotionally betrayed. After all, they bought a "Porsche".
There are people buying Raby big engines so there are people putting $20k engines into their old cars. Individual choice.
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Not about choice. About selling crap. I have two other German cars of the vintage of the boxster and about same price. 170k miles between them and no catastrophic design flaws. The value of the boxster is significantly reduced because of the threat of failure. And by the abundance of broke cars on the market. Sure they made lots. BMW made lots of E46 M3s and you don't see them blowing motors unless they were overheated. /rant.