Once upon a time my family used to take yearly trips to Singapore to visit family, and every trip we would take the cable car to Sentosa to do the theme/water park there. We apparently could have taken a taxi as there's a bridge but the cable car was so much more fun and I don't know about the adults or my cousins but I know for a fact I was too young and stupid to think about the definite death drop XD
The cable cars at the time I was taking them were in very good nick though, these ones do look like a potential accident waiting to happen. I feel like there's an element of don't make 'em like they used to if these relics are still going.
A lot of the ones that are closed did because of accidents in the past. That happened here and in Armenia. Though some of them just got abandoned as the Soviet Union collapsed and the funding dried up. There was even an old abandoned one in Borjomi. But that was clearly left as a result of funding. There wasn't much money in that one, and it was definitely for the few people that lived higher up in the mountain to get down and up easily. Cars in general now just replace them.