Interesting point re. the dreaded 'bean counters'. In another life,I was constantly puzzled to find that setting a particular IRS fault was not producing the specified result. It was a long time before a casual remark by one of the Sim Dev engineers revealed the reason.
Because the IRUs were aircraft units, it had been decided to use only two instead of three to save money. The third IR was simulated by software which gave most of the required operating indications BUT NOT the SINGLE unit failure indications - that always came up as a DOUBLE unit failure. Not life threatening, perhaps, but quite frustrating for some time.
In conversation with one of the managers I tried to make the point of the necessity of expenditure on quality training and not cutting corners. I'll leave you to guess the reaction.
It ought to be unnecessary to point out that the cost of poor quality training is measured in body bags.