Reply #18: I'm an engineer in a related field and I mostly agree with you, but

[katzenjammers]

as the bean counters are obviously trying to mitigate their corporate losses, which is their job, but any claims that their actions are deliberately either refusing to work on the problem or silencing their own engineers is just stupid. There was certainly some gambling on how to maximize profits
which is the way every business operates but no way would even the topcats ever want the negative publicity they've already gotten even to end up with a high production well. They might be amoral, but they're not idiots.