Praise for cast iron

Tonight my dear girlfriend made a delicious stir-fry in my cast iron frying pan. I've had this thing for some time now, and I marvel at it every time I use it. In fact every time I use it, the sheer superiority of the thing gives me the strong urge to chuck the rest of my cook wear in the rubbish bin. A cast iron pan is non-stick, heats more evenly, cleans up without soap, scoff at the use of metal utensils, and is basically indestructable.
Where and how did we get sold the cheap junk that is our modern cookwear? The only downside to the cast iron pan is it requires some CARE (something my Slovak hillbilly brother is blogging about right now). It needs to be cleaned in fairly short order after use and then dried off to avoid rust. On the off chance it looses its seasoning, one needs to reseason it. So in exchange for a durable, functional piece of basic household equipment we can hand down to our grandchildren, we've gotten a pan that is easy to clean when we ignore the dishes for a few days.
It really speaks to a larger issue that has bothered me for a long time. Everything is made so poorly these days, as to almost beggar the imagination. The gas grill I brought a month ago is horribly flimsy (and this was not a bottom end grill either). Planned obsolescence is a pernicious doctrine, that only adds more to the bottom line of big companies because we are all too forgetful when our crap breaks and we go out and buy a new piece of crap.
I've heard the economic arguments for why nearly every product is so cheap and lousy these days, and they've never rung true.
One of the few areas where quality still reigns over cost-cutting is in the majority of firearms these days. While there ae "budget" gun manufacturers, most, like my personal favorite Ruger, make it part of their ethos to build quality into their cost-cutting measures.
In any case, I'm hoping to gradually convert my entire cookwear selection to cast iron in the hope that my grandkids will enjoy it someday to.