I’ve read this excuse before and it just goes to show that the culture promoted there, whilst seemingly enviable for it’s hetrarchical nature, has enabled an environment conducive to sitting on their laurels and not taking chances on creating the devastating, state of the art stuff that we all know they are truly capable of.
What a bunch of cowards. What a bunch of vindictive cowards. What a bunch of money-obsessed, artless, tail-chasing, self-satisfied cowards.
*humph