To go along with what you just said,

It's kind of a natural cave man instinct to smash things when they don't work.

And might even provide you a much needed stress relief.

The mighty mouse scroll assembly is flawed. No doubt about that.

And the Puck mouse is pretty annoying as well.

All i can think of to relate to this is, My Saturn Vue has the 3.0L DOHC British engine.

They have a timing belt that wears out and needs to be replaced, if you don't change it

catastrophic failure permits.

If apple can design a Magic Mouse that is literally 100% maintenance free.

( in theory could last for ever )

Then why can't they make a car or develop some transportation that operates the same way?