I mean this is sorta one of the things an autocracy does well. You might get substandard work and a lot of graft but when the order comes down no one gets to complain when they run a train line through your house.

And then turn a blind eye to all the broken stuff because “we have been living with it so it’s not broken”

Then there’s “if it ain’t broke… how can we break it to extract a few extra bucks from it?”