A door that went in around 2000 is now old enough that its original torsion springs have likely done their 10,000-plus cycles and are due, or overdue, for replacement - that's the single most common call we'd expect out of a town built on this timeline. Original rollers on these doors are usually steel, not nylon, so the grinding noise homeowners describe is often just worn rollers rather than a failing opener.
The climate band here runs moderate on heat, which is easier on garage door steel and seals than a harsher band would be - less panel warping, less weatherstrip breakdown from UV. It doesn't mean nothing goes wrong, just that the failures we see tend to be mechanical wear rather than heat-driven material failure.
One honest limit: if your opener logic board is the 2000-era unit, replacement boards for that specific model are getting harder to source, and sometimes a full opener swap is the faster, cheaper answer than hunting a matching part. We'll tell you which one when we're standing in front of it.