I dunno. I live in Canada where the winter is cold and I'm old enough to remember how unreliable carberator-started vehicles were. The block heater *had* to be plugged in every day, and you still pumped the gas and prayed every morning that it would start. I pretty much never plug my cars' block heaters in and they always start first try, even when it's -40 (C or F).

I know that's a fuel injection thing, not necessarily a computer thing, but I don't miss how unreliable the older cars were (pre-1990s).

I own two cars, a BMW e30 and a Toyota T100. Both are like <5% computer. Lease a modern EV for daily communing tho, gotta spam them with the boring data. But if shit hits the fan the pickup is the go to for sure lol, keep the gas filled just in case.