I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.