Really.  What do we expect after gutting the aerospace industry in 1970, and approximately every 8 years after that. Sure, it keeps profits high for (more-or-less hourly) engineering work, as you have beginners doing it, at beginner's rates.  But between the Iron Hand of the FAA, the oddities of the Black Space Program and politics, nobody can have a career in aerospace, so it doesn't attract decent people, much less imaginative innovators.