As the article basically points out, bureaucrats get bigger budgets when they fail. The failure is rewarded. So that they can do better “next time”.
Your local school system operates in a similar way — if the schools are top-notch, will voters approve a tax increase to make the schools better? Probably not. Why bother? The schools are top-notch already.
If your schools are awful, full of violence, with graduating kids being unable to read, write or do simple math, will voters approve a tax increase to make schools better? They sure will! Gotta fix those schools! This is why most government schools are bad — they get rewarded when they fail.
And the Pentagon tends to get more money when our generals hand us a humiliating defeat.
You are exactly right. When schools / government fails, that is the basis to need, request more money. When a company is failing they are less able to borrow money and get investors. They go to politicians and say look how we suck Sinbad we need more money to fix the problem. The solution is always more money. It should be, you clean up your act or we give you less $. I’ve been saying for decades, government rewards failure.