What if we’re more charitable and consider that maybe the modelers assumed that they were doing the most detailed models and someone else would be processing them to produce derivatives for lower zoom levels? It’s rare that something like this happens because nobody knew it was a problem but rather that there is a management dysfunction around priorities and resources.
That sounds like a failure to set the right culture in the company, though? I’m not saying that nobody else is to blame in that situation but in general responsibility starts at the top where people are paid enormous sums precisely to handle problems like that.
I mean, you shouldn't be charitable. Those clothes drying aren't 20 subdivision wide because they're detailed. The logs have five sides they don't have all those segments along their length because they're detailed. At absolute best, they didn't go back and fix the topology. At worst those were development assets that were thrown together in 5 minutes and then never replaced.
