I've enjoyed my ownership of Nissan's. I had a bad experience with Honda and my dad loved Toyota's - that ruined the brand for me.I realize there are about as many Nissan fan's here as there are flat earth society members at NASA. But there not really the same issues.
Nissan sales are growing - especially in Japan.
Nissan profit per vehicle is increasing - globally.
Ghosn ruined them. Since Renault, nor Mitsubishi could ever get traction in the USA, they leaned on Nissan. They followed the same BS strategy they tried with Mits in the late 90's - make cheap, bad cars and sell them by financing people that otherwise did not deserve financing. It ended the same.
The Japanese have retaken control. There getting rid of the CVT's slowly. There trying to return to the original Nissan model - build only a few models, make them simple and highly reliable and cheaper than Toyota. It served them well for years, they just forgot in recent years. The Nissan's in my signature are the most reliable vehicles I have ever owned by a long shot.
I over maintain my cars and most everything with moving parts, so my experience with Nissan might not be typical? However I see lots of Canadians driving older Nissan's so there must be something we like.