I'll assume you meant that IF I purchase another Subaru I should avoid any of the 1st gen CVT models. I completely agree. Other than the CD player failing and the volume controls on the steering wheel dying ( neither of which should have happened either since I don't even USE the CD player ) it's been pretty trouble free otherwise.
If you were suggesting that the replacement car should have been something other than the 1st gen CVT model then I'm not sure how that could be expected since my choices were pretty much automatic if I needed to have anyone else I knew drive it. While I can somewhat agree that perhaps it's a series of bad luck. It's not as though I didn't wait a year on the first Gen CVT and check to see if there were obvious problems. The first car I just figured was a lemon and something about it was causing transmission problems. They took it back no problem. No harm, no foul, it happens. I had no reason to suspect that I'd be dealing with yet another transmission problem in a middle aged car. It's not even 4 years old, yeah there's mileage, but it's almost all highway mileage so it's not like it was constant stop and go abuse, I've never rocked the car out of a snowbank, and I've never towed anything and there's usually only 2 of us in the car so it's not like there's 800 pounds of people in the car either.
Maybe I could have gone with a different make/model/transmission when they replaced it, but why would I assume I had anything other than a one off lemon? If I have to avoid entire model lines of cars based on what might have a 1st gen part in it that's not exactly a glowing endorsement of Subaru Quality. At that point, for all I know their new 2015 Impreza has some gen 1 part that fires the airbags every time I use the rear defroster and leave the turn signal on for 17 blinks. It's not a serious example, but something always has a gen 1 something in it and it's not reasonable for the customer to be forced to do that level of research.
Either your product is reliable, or it isn't. For me the Subaru Legacy cars are not, or at least are not long lasting, and I don't see Subaru really standing behind their product here to show me otherwise. I'm currently firmly in the 5% of the Subaru cars sold in the last ten years that aren't still on the road. Twice.