What happens is that as a company scales to this sort of size, all kinds of shortcuts are made, all kinds of compromise decisions are made because there is stil

What happens is that as a company scales to this sort of size, all kinds of shortcuts are made, all kinds of compromise decisions are made because there is still little non-financial cost for getting it wrong. Imagine deciding to add some extra floors to your office made from cardboard because, "we are scaling too quickly to build them out of concrete". Wouldn't happen. Why? The legal and marketing fallout would be fatal. In the corporate world, especially in ones at the extreme levels of inefficiency/size/etc. it is easy just to blame the previous job holder, the previous culture, "we have made improvements since then" etc. as if that makes it alright. tbf, we also see this in Healthcare and Government so I think it is Human Nature rather than corporate greed.