I guess this answers my question. Around 12 years ago I had a friend put a Comp cam into a 440 and it lasted a whole 52 miles before failing like the one in the video. Maybe the bean counters think they'll sell more cams this way, sorry, that's not how it works.
i believe a lot of it has to do with corporate greed by the Exec's as well as a changing of the guard. IE: The management that built the companies have retired and their replacements grew up in a different world.
I have had several bad experience's with products from well know Japanese companies recently and there seems to be little interest in addressing them. It's now about the $$ If you want quality you may have to go with smaller companies that are privately owned as they have to push quality or they won't survive
EDITAdd in inexperienced engineers trying to make themselves look good reducing costs by eliminating what THEY think are not needed
