How can financial auditors be so poor quality? So many of us implicitly trust them through our trust in public equity markets. If I can't trust company financ

How can financial auditors be so poor quality? So many of us implicitly trust them through our trust in public equity markets. If I can't trust company financial statements, how can I deploy my savings in a low friction way. Ugh. This year it seems so many institutions we trusted are failing us.