Cause it’s always tempting doing the short sighted solution since the cost seems very low given how quickly you get the benefit.

But once you get the benefit, the cost can keep growing even though you’ve already experienced the political high from bringing new infrastructure.

It’s like the sunken cost fallacy, once you accepted the short sighted solution was a good deal, you kind of set yourself up to keep thinking it’s still worth it even though the formula gets worse as time goes on.