It's always easier and sexier to build than maintain. All capital expense decisions are made at a point in time.

Sustained operations are hard unless you have growth, because flat budgets are cuts given inflation, etc. Given the choice between stocking the toilet paper or doing a preventative maintenance on the elevator that may impact your successor a few years from now, what do you choose?

The only times that facilities are run well is when there is a retired senior military nco in charge. Usually someone who was a chief of the boat in the Navy.