At one time, the Nobel Prize conveyed an honor upon its recipients. No longer.
At one time, to be associated with NASA would have been an honor for an engineer. No longer.
But, with the right leadership in DC and at the NASA centers, that doesn’t have to continue to be the case. And, it will be the case if we don’t continue to train new engineers, scientists, and technicians and increase their ability to deal with very complicated systems. The IRS, FAA, FBI, and other agencies all failed to develop new computer systems/networks for the same reasons. Management was a big one, but the lack of appropriate systems engineering is another.