Nissan stopped caring about being a real car company when the large sales from cheap shit like the Versa (based on the Sentra platform, which they then shoved the Rogue onto) came about at the peak of the last recession, I think. At some point, some bean counter over there figured out they could keep cranking out shit vehicles on the same shit platform over and over again and sell them like hot cakes as long as it was better than the Chevy Aveo.
The used car market was dead back then, so it's not like the majority of people were going to put and pay new car prices for a used car when they could get a brand new Nissan with a warranty. People think that protects them from losing on their investment. If you buy new and it has a warranty, it must mean you're not going to have any issues until that runs out.
Which is great, up until you realize that Nissan doesn't put out recall notices nearly as much as they should, even if a problem is documented, reported, and VERY well known about.
An example would be my old B15 Sentra with the QG18 in it, including the SE-R. Each model had its own design faults. Mine had a known issue where the fuel pump would fail to prime constantly and cause long starts and failed turn overs. This was on every model and a well known issue. It also had a shitty crank position sensor that would throw an engine code while driving and stop the engine. If you drive an automatic when that happens on a highway, you will probably get in an accident. Manual will just roll start whole moving to keep the engine going. Again, very well known.
With the SE-R you had these things eating their own pre-cats because of a loose butterfly screw on the it would ingest. First fix anyone should do on that car is to loctite that damned screw.
Never a recall for any of these issues. Not one. Try pose danger to human lives or outright failures of the vehicles. The fuel pump is just annoying, but still a horrible flaw.
This is just a handful of examples of how little Nissan gives a shit.
They've been cranking out the same low quality shit or just recycling the few good designs they had ridden around on for a decade and can't keep up with the other companies who have begun to step it up.
Also, let us not forget the Nissan CEOs ridiculously rigged AMA he attempted to do here. It was so bad it was funny.
Nissan is a total shit show right now. It's pathetic.