I was hesitant to write about this in my comment, but yes, this is actually a higher-weight motivator for me.

Whenever I buy something new I feel like I am making myself complicit to everything that went into making it, and I know it ain't pretty, so why do it when I don't have to.

My top-level motivation for starting out was just to reduce my monthly/annual expenditures so that I could "downshift".