> "What a rosy picture! How can we realize this stunning vision of a future-to-be?"

The people who said

  Don't worry about doing it right, just do it fast, we'll fix it later

And it was never fixed. It seems we keep pushing to go faster and faster, and for cheaper. If you continually are cutting weight pretty soon you're gonna have to cut off your limbs. Any successful bureaucrat/manager who cut fat before you is not going to leave much fat left for you to cut. Besides, some fat is actually good.