I know of a company where the pilots don’t do pre flight inspections. The Pilots are happy to sign the aircraft acceptance sight unseen. Someone else does a daily inspection and this is accepted by all as equivalent.
I know of another organization where the crewman does the preflight inspection every other day. If the Pilot was to then go and have another look before takeoff the crew would be very offended.
Equivalent safety maybe?? But from my point of view it shows a broad reduction in the standard of airmanship as unlikevice suggests.