Funny, I used to believe things were built better in the past. Then my five-year-old washing machine needed a $400 repair, same as my dad's that ran for twenty years. Planned obsolescence feels real now.

Factor in rework time when rushing drafts. I've seen projects derailed by errors that took weeks to fix. Honest schedules prevent more headaches than they cause.

Remember a job where we found bad pitting under some insulation, way worse than the logs showed. Ryan_sanchez has a point about check ups, but sometimes the find makes you change the game plan on the spot. We ended up doing a full valve section swap right then, which definitely wasn't the original playbook. It's like the corrosion tells you what to do next, not the other way around. More finds probably means more of those surprise calls in the field.