It isn't that it is dead, it is just pushed out really really far. So the bathtub curve turns into, "if it survives birth, it lives forever"

The term "bathtub curve" came from the fact that typically hard disks had a lot of early deaths in the first year right out of the factory, hence a graph of hard drive death age would have a high side on the left (brand new drives dying) and a high side on the right (old drives dying), and during the warranty period the drives were reliable, so the curve was shaped like a bathtub (high sides, flat bottom).

This lead to a lot of people doing things intensive burn-in cycles for a week to test new drives before putting them in their machines.

When there are no longer early deaths (the "left" side of the bathtub), it's just "old things wear out" which doesn't have a special word for it.

We still experience some hardware failure when we buy new hardware in bulk.

The tub has not disappeared, but its shallower and longer.

Well, until the tail of the bathtub, which still seems to be there, but more of a wide dyke rather then a sharp and tall bathtub-edge. Which is father away than it used to be.

Drives still have a meaningful average working life is what I see in te data. There's just barely any infant mortality left.