Is the industry sacrificing quality for shorter product releases?

No matter the industry or the market, companies are competing ferosciously to launch products first. The obvious consequence of shorter product releases is shorter product development (or both bigger teams and bigger R&D budgets, which are not the case). There is no magic.

Thanks to technology, tooling and continuous processes improvements, development productivity has increased to shorten product release times. On the other hand, products are getting more complex. I wonder if the continuously increased productivity has been sufficient to compensante for the increasingly reduced development time and the continuous increase in product complexity (?).

And the reason why I wonder is because we are seeing so many recalls across the industries and market segments - we are seeing even frauds, but that is another topic for discussion. Recent remarkable examples include Honda's recall of millions of cars worldwide (airbags) and Samsung stop selling recently-launched Galaxy Note 7 (fire) worldwide.

Is the industry as a whole sacrificing product quality for shorter release cycles? Is the industry as a whole leaving to the clients/users to find many of the problems that should have been found by the development (i.e., testing/QA) teams?

Or could improved consumer protection be the key reason why we are seeing more recalls today compared to the past?

What do you think?