I suspect that part of the problem is that expertise doesn't reside in monolithic corporations and governments anymore, but in specialist consultant companies t

I suspect that part of the problem is that expertise doesn't reside in monolithic corporations and governments anymore, but in specialist consultant companies that have relatively high fixed costs and thus must charge more to make a profit. In addition I suspect that there are a lot of lookalike consultant companies that charge a lot of money in exchange for kickbacks but don't provide any value.