As we learned from Hayek in the Road to Surfdom, the government by planners does not work because you can plan and mandate all you want but the outcome will be flawed as planners can’t account for reality.
Central planning works with finite goals and mandates and cannot take into account the reality of the market, the reality of God’s universe and the reality and variety of humanity.
I am not sure I would get so philosophical! You use cheap crap in your builds and the results are predictable. The Chinese probably just worked to get .001 cent cost reduction into each cap and found the dead nuts bottom of what would work.