But why do they keep doing it when we always notice? It's like they're betting on us getting tired of complaining. Maybe we just need to stop buying the cheap version every time.

Honestly the bigger issue is when your own team in the same time zone schedules late calls just because they work weird hours.

My buddy in Tacoma waited EIGHT months for a simple deck permit. The inspector made him redo the footings THREE times for no clear reason.

I just looked up how much aluminum gets thrown out from machine shops every year. It's something like half a million tons just in the US. All that energy to make it from scratch when you could just melt the scraps down again. Throwing that in a landfill is like burning money and then paying extra to dump the ashes.