Some thoughts on @Stan Galat's piece:
Cordless framing guns (gas driven) have been around for a long time from Passload. That's what they all had when they built my current 2-car garage 15 years ago. Electric versions are starting to appear, too.
Watch for them on "This Old House" as Tommy Silva and his teams always seem to have the latest tools out there, as subtle advertising from the makers who provide them (usually free) to the show.
I've noticed, especially with Craftsman ratchets - and I'm talking Sears stores, here (Lowe's may be different) - That if you have the old style with the bar on the back to change direction (which was rebuildable when they still offered rebuild kits) and it finally wears out, if you take it in to get a new one under the lifetime warranty they give you a new one that's one grade lower in quality (and not rebuildable), like the finger-flipper style with a poorer gear set inside.
Re- More is more: When we had two homes 1,000 miles apart, I would bring my Go-To tool box with me - A three drawer box, stuffed to the gills, but eventually had I got a stand up tool chest when they went on sale at Lowes or HD. When we went back to one home I combined everything so I not only have a stand-up chest each for Metric and English, but there are several duplicates of everything in both. More is more. You can't beat that.
I still have the 7/16" X 1/2" dual box wrench that I put a 90 bend in to get at the distributor clamp bolt on a GMC 350 V8 over 50 years ago. Sacrificed a wrench for the greater good but made life a lot easier.
Harbor Freight saw a hole opening up in the market when Craftsman and Stanley and others started outsourcing their tools to Asia about ten years ago. As quality went down the demand for better quality tools increased. Craftsman et al shouldn't have let their quality slip in the first place, but the demand has been decreasing for tools, in general but especially for automotive-style tools, for the past decade. I believe that HF saw the hole and is beginning to fill it.