I mean this is sorta one of the things an autocracy does well. You might get substandard work and a lot of graft but when the order comes down no one gets to complain when they run a train line through your house.

Then there’s “if it ain’t broke… how can we break it to extract a few extra bucks from it?”

And then turn a blind eye to all the broken stuff because “we have been living with it so it’s not broken”