The owners skimping on maintenance costs is the most likely cause.
I was discussing this with a friend yesterday, and when I mentioned incompetency as a possible contributing or root cause, he took issue with it and became somewhat combative.
I had to explain that incompetency can be extremely broad, and covers everything from someone who is incompetent because they didn’t receive the appropriate training and drilling on a particular malfunction, to the people who simply gun-decked the training (signed off without checking for competency), poor training, poor administration, poor maintenance, that rabbit hole just goes on and on.
I view a single minute spent on diversity training, when it wasn’t spent on a minute of actual real training as massive incompetence, in the same way I view any company that operates on DEI principles in hiring and promotion as practicing unforgivable incompetence.
And, as we have seen, incompetency is just as destructive as terrorism, and in today’s day and age, even worse, because you can combat terrorism.
But if the laws are made to promote incompetency, it cannot be fought.