Each that I named benefitted American citizens, regardless of whether that met some nitpicker’s schedule or budget. NOTHING coming out of D.C. meets budget or schedule!
The Interstates greatly improved interstate commerce and tourism.
The electrical power provided by the dams and nuclear power stations provided for expansion and an alternative to coal.
The Moon shot project led to development of many new technologies.
I consider those outcomes to be successful results.
Exactly.
It is not "nitpicking" to ask for a project to accomplish its scope within budget and within schedule.
Can you imagine a business operating on a "whatever it takes, how ever long it takes" basis? ...not just on some new innovation but on all of its projects? That business would go defunct in short order with that kind of attitude.