Random luck probably.

Seriously, overvoltage would have killed the DSP too. The other big killer of capacitors is excessive temperature/time during soldering, but I wouldn't suspect that after so much time.

Don't sweat it. It's not likely to have been caused by anything identifiable, or likely to start happening to other players en masse.
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