Don’t senior people give a fig about quality ?

I would expect a network of mainframes, telling me 24/7 that my safety-critical systems are working.

Don’t senior people give a fig about quality ?
Everything costs money, and monitoring systems is expensive.

Such a system is much harder to do than you can imagine.

How could you know that the mainframe network itself is working properly?
Reply:Generally they care about cost/benefit more than quality. If the risk is small and the saving large, they'll usually take it.
Reply:They are all about quality. They are notorious for using the saying, "they don't make them like they use to."