I stated this to highlight the difference in goals of a democratic government and a private company - seeing as pensions got mentioned.
It is a ”governance” org type problem, sure, but this is prevalent in any big company.
Still sucks though.
Sure it is. Because the non government solution is apparently working a lot better in this specific circumstance.
So yes, the blame falls squarely on the government for this specific situation.
This is a “project as delivery & governance model” issue.
We can blame them for using such a model, yes, but the situation is not much better at most non-tech companies of moderate size.