Forgings, intelligent castings for the best Engineering reasons only, Pinned Barrels, Counter-set Revolver Cylinders for High Pressure Cartridge kinds, carefully Machined parts and sub-assemblies, all are in keeping with a mystique and ethos of careing about the quality of the Work.
Shorcuts, 'value engineering', cheap materials or cheap methods to save costs, eliminating skill or intelligence and ability from those people employed to make and assemble the Parts and finished products, all contribute to a mood of cheapness, indifference, gratuity, lack of craftsmanship, lack of really caring...lack of respect...loss of vision, waffled or conflicted committment.
High quality was never hard for people to notice and appreciate and value...and never a problem for people desiring it, to pay for it, and for it to mean something to own and use, even if it mean saving up.
Forsaking high quality for a few more sales to appease stockholders and fiscal quarter profits, is not seen as being very admirable by anyone who knows better.
I think any business should strive for the highest quality product or service possible, and to do without self serving luxuries and wastes and overpaying CEOs and new corporate headquarters and all the other focus killing jive and waste and paper games of not caring about anything but money grubbing and self aggrandizement, and, if offering tiers of hierarchy in the product or service, to be very careful about what is being compromised or reduced or eliminated for the lower tiers, if wishing to offer tiered stratas of what one is to get for one's Money.
Knowing how to Manufacture things well, with high quality and good design and Engineering standards, seems to be becoming a lost or abdicated legacy of our Culture.