This is hard to face for conscientious people who have built identities around their skills, but yes, objectively, as measured by decisions and results, quality¹ is not important and it never was. It's horrible to say, but no amount of indignation makes it false when it's a fact.

It's just true.

Quality has always been a luxury that almost everyone has gone without, consumers and producers both.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105315