Comment by Yokohiii

I think if we look at the lack of accountability it's obvious that one major problem is that many of these projects do heavily rely on contract work. No company or gov in the world can supply the perfect brain- and manpower necessary on day one (on a huge and complex project that requires expert knowledge). So there is an prevalent delusion that talent just spawns at project kickoff and those people even care about what they do.

Maybe this is some artifact we carried over from the industrial era. We expect that complex machinery is built by expert companies over night and they just work, with a bit of maintenance and knowledge transfer. But software doesn't work like that.