My Carbide Compact Routers have always worked well.
In Support, we’ve had a couple of folks who have had to replace multiple units (one working theory is that they were over-tightening the mounts).
The Makita is a drop-in replacement for the Carbide Compact Router, using the same collets, nuts, bearings, brushes, motor, and motor housing — just the electronics and top-cap and dial are different, and the cord, ours is much longer. Folks with a nearby Makita dealer, and who have worked out running the cord up to the ceiling have done well with it, except for a few reports of the dial vibrating off a given speed setting (easily solved w/ a bit of tape).
At one point in time, folks were looking at compact trim routers as a consumable, replacing them on a regular basis.
We had a lengthy discussion on the currently available choices at:
Aside from having to open/close drag chains, it’s a pretty easy swap (we’ve had a lot of folks upgrading to our 65mm VFD lately).
I will note that when folks have had a failure during the middle of a project on which they can’t wait for shipping, our suggestion is to grab a Makita locally, and that spares are a good idea — broke a collet on the fancy option I chose and had to wait for shipping from Germany.