Might it have something to do with people who are out of touch with reality making decisions using tax dollars?
I can imagine too many people making 6 figure incomes sitting in comfortable chairs around a polished, exotic wood table in an air conditioned room (with a 'Sound and Mountains' view) nodding and smiling while some corporate mouthpiece shows them a slick PowerPoint that extolls the civic virtues of automated self-cleaning public toilets.
Afterward, serious reflection via a pro vs con comparison didn't happen before the head nodding and "The 'ayes' have it." rolled through the room.
Lemme guess, you are one of those dipshits who expects to get top quality talent to work for government for jack shit, then bitchs when you may them minimum and you get some slack jawed troglodyte from Tacoma who can barely spell in office?