I would say it's like sound engineering for architecture: If you're willing to incorporate it in the design from the outset, use specific components, and organ

I would say it's like sound engineering for architecture: If you're willing to incorporate it in the design from the outset, use specific components, and organize the project with that as a focus, you can make quality things. Most things end up as an echo-y, impossible to hear cacophony as soon as there's many actors involved, because they just don't care and don't plan for it -- it would be a "waste of money", because it still performs economically without that. You even have parallels like adding things to existing projects to try and fix them, and that not being nearly as effective than had you designed it better in the first place.