The use of tools is not specifically restricted to humans, since even crows can use sticks and stones to get to food in hard to reach places. But humans do have a longer history of making and refining tools, and we even used the simpler ones to make more complex ones, almost to mindblowing sequences.
But not everyone is in for ever more complex stuff. There is a certain elegance in for instance classic cars, as they usually are way more maintainable by normal people than the modern cars: Those are so jam-packed with sensors and software that usually it is the car that tells you it has a defect, rather than you finding out the normal way because it sounds off.
And then such a diagnostic system tells you to take it to the garage, as if you are a slave to the machine. Often though, it's the sensor itself that fails, and the engine is running perfectly. Also, the more complex a system, the more it is possible to rig the system. And it's as ancient as everything: even when I was a boy, my dad working at a Volkswagen garage, he told me the spark plugs of the Bug were the very same as those of the Posche 911, and the only difference was the price...