Comment by ozim

Survivorship bias, you see only old tables or chairs that lasted, you don't see all the crap that didn't make it to present times.

False dichotomy "if it is not IKEA it is 'artisanal' great quality" — well — no our forefathers would be able to afford whatever quality had local woodworking shop and imagine that a lot of places didn't have best of te best... So IKEA made average quality much better.