My 10Mbps hub (yes, not a switch) has been with me for decades. I've owned lots of smarter (switched, managed) and faster (100Mbps and then 1Gbps) devices that used less power (turns out when 10Mbps was invented nobody cared about "power saving"...) but over the years lots of those have dropped dead whereas the 10Mbps hub still works, which is why I still own it even though it isn't currently wired up, I know that sooner or later a 1Gbps switch will die and I'll hook that 10Mbps hub in there until a new one arrives.

Now, is it "better"? Overall, no. Or else I wouldn't keep buying Gigabit switches. But is it more robust? Yes. And if that's what you care about...