2014/15, I tend to live with the same kit for a long time, or at least I have done for the past decade or so, up until I sold my main system to fund a house move and a new business venture... but I still have two Linn systems, one a full active system that I already had, I’ve not had to buy anything to “downgrade”.
When I have some spare cash to splash, I’m going to go turntable shopping because although still quite nice, my Rega P5 is the weakest link in my main setup by a fair margin, it’ll be relegated to my second system and probably be replaced by something like a Rega P8/10, another LP12 or a Xerxes 20+, or if I can get a big enough budget, an SME Model 20/Series V... which would be probably be the last deck I buy.