This is the most likely explanation. Hanlon's razor is not relevant anymore, it's actually the opposite these days.
People who don't want to see this reality are just polezniye duraki that further allow the corrupt people in charge to get away with it.
Slightly derailing the topic, one only has to take a look at US goverment budget for like 0.001 secs to see how deep this problem goes. There are invoices like $500 a piece for a fastener.
The duraki will come up to say "oh but that's probably a fastener that has to be created in space from the rarest material available to be used in an extremely sensitive physics experiment". It's not and you're making a fool of yourself. The real purpose of those fasteners is to get someone a new condo in Miami.
It's just corruption.