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Part of the answer was in previous comments: they are relying too much on “nice” humans instead of rationalizing processes. This is very common in the EU and in fact trying to do stuff that will lead to less people needed for a given output will quickly get you in trouble. The other day there was someone calling EU communist and on a “culture” point of view this is pretty close. We seem stuck on old paradigm of everyone has to do something even if it cause more problems in the long run. I believe they could absolutely produce more machine if they had too but they don’t have to care since they have no real competitors on the high end stuff so this is what we get…