Totally with you on that score.
It is very easy to blame the last person to handle the "component" particularly when they are dead, the blame then passes to the next in line, the poor engineer.
Much more relevant to ask those difficult questions you identified of the post holder/ the regulators/ the manufacturers. . . . . . but SO much easier to blame the pilots & engineers thereby conveniently ignoring the dumbing down of knowledge/respect that has for fiscal reasons been encouraged in this profession for too long now.
All of the responsibility/ none of the authority that is the dream scenario for bean counters, and is very close to the current status "enjoyed" by those on the front line.