Then you get proprietary and non-universal parts. Even just a few years ago (well, decades perhaps) if you needed a part for a bike you could walk into a bike shop (or even some hardware stores) and chances were you could buy a part that fitted the bike.
And the same part would fit your neighbour's bike and most, if not all the bikes in your street.
OK, there were things like Raleigh bikes used 26tpi threads while other UK bikes used 24tpi and there were some weird fittings for some continental bikes, but mostly the stuff was universal. If you broke your super lightweight rear gear changer on a Sunday morning before a race you could go into Halfords (which even before Sunday trading could open because it sold bike parts), buy a cheap gear change, fit it, adjust it and race. OK, maybe it wouldn't change as well as the broken one used to and probably didn't look that great, but it fitted and did the job.
Not now - oh no, the level of proprietary fittings is now such that shops simply can't hold the parts available. It's like going to a main dealer for a car part, you have to wait until an order is fulfilled. Which has a lead time - if you're lucky it'll be days but if not, it's months.
In my parent's garage there are 6 (or maybe 7) bikes which haven't been ridden in over 20 years, probably nearer 30. I could go there this afternoon, pump up the tyres and if the tubes held air, ride each one of them and the brakes would work. From my experiences with cars - especially classic cars - if they had hydraulic disc brakes the chances are that the brakes either wouldn't work at all or would blow their seals at first activation.