Simple versus complicated machinery

Hi What is your philosophy re: buying a lathe or milling machine. Myself, the first thing I look for is ease of maintenance and repair , the older belt driven stuff generally is easier to repair . Some people do like the more complicated machine tools but at the end of the day, a lathe just turns a piece of metal around . The DS&G lathe of Piers is a top class machine but I would be terrified of it breaking down . Me, I like to remove a lathe spindle in less than an hour and put it back together again without hassles . Maybe its my less than ideal mechanical ability coming out