While that may true for complicated equipment with motors like tillers, lawnmowers, and snow blowers that's not the case for simple things like hoses. Pity the fool who buys the cheap snow blower and spends space storing it all summer only to have it crap out during the first blizzard. A hose is kind of hard to screw up manufacturing wise and if it does break they're trivial to fix with splices. I only buy the cheapest hoses sold and my hoses go through the most brutal environmental conditions on my rooftop garden. They stay up there year round and suffer intense heat sitting on a flat rubber roof in the summer to intense sub zero cold during the winter. Only twice in seven years did a bubble appear in the middle one of my main transfer hose that needed to be cut out but that only costs a few dollars each time. Sometimes leaks pop at ends of tributary watering garden hoses due to stress from changing out watering wands but then again, that's trivial and cheap to fix as well. Why spend $50 on a hose when there's one for $20? The thing I do buy quality are hose splices, new ends, and splitters, I only get the copper stuff. The plastic splitters and splices never lasted more than a week in my garden.
I can't believe some of you people get warranties for something as simple as a hose and are organized enough to keep track of your hose warranty. I'd rather fix the damn hose myself than even drive to some big box store, stand in line, and explain to some bored clerk that my hose is broke and I want a new one. Actually, I'd be kind of embarrassed doing something like that. Some people, however, have no shame LOL.