[fwlr]

It’s tempting to think this, and I’ve thought this way before, but I don’t think it’s true. All of the cultures mentioned in my comment are manufacturing powerhouses - by most measures, each has (at different points) been literally the best in the world at manufacturing. I don’t think you can get that without being able to build things that work, efficiently, at scale.

I do think it’s true that some cultural approaches are so incompatible with each other that they will never be able to work together efficiently at scale, but each culture is internally consistent and knows how to operate within itself.