My humble experience is that this scale of duckup is unachievable from line workers being bad at their jobs. It is easily achievable from bad/misaligned incent

My humble experience is that this scale of duckup is unachievable from line workers being bad at their jobs. It is easily achievable from bad/misaligned incentives, poor leadership, no product vision and probably a dozen other organisation problems which make decent workers working on stuff that actively makes the end product worse. Think Boeing 737 Max.