iPad 1- too reliable for an Apple product?

I purchased my used iPad 1 16GB WiFi model in 2016 mainly as a item that would be a spare tablet, but its served me so well, that it deserves its own write up on ownership.
2 years later-

The iPad 1's backside, with all of the dents its endured.

The front of the iPad 1, turned off.

The iPad 1 turned on to its lock screen (yes that is the iOS 8 wallpaper)!

Being a workhorse iPad, it has been tattered and run to dead battery, but it rebounds, getting me through a full day with video streaming, and reading. This thing has been dropped, but the case ended up getting wrecked (uncommon for an Apple product) it also has endured a car wreck, drop down a couple of stories onto carpet, and even a drop onto cement, that took out my iPad 2. In addition to surviving drops, it also has got better battery life than my iPod Touch 6th gen which I got last year, new. Also, it will happily chug through upwards of 10 hours of music, on full volume, the only downside here is the lack of any base boost. However, I bought at the right time, I bought it for $60, the current value is now $80, the same as a used 16 GB iPad 2. It also has Google Maps built in, which with my portable hot spot makes my bare-bones car a brand new car effectively, with music streaming and all! It even will play light games, such as Angry Birds, which is about as old as the tablet itself. It will even browse the internet, but I recommend Google Chrome for that bit. The only real downside is the weight, and the fact that people will ask me whenever I pull it out at somewhere like the mall whether or not I am aware it is 2018.

 It is actually a bit too reliable, in fact some of my friends who have these want them to die already, but they just won't.

The iPad 1 home screen, fully updated to iOS 5.1.1.