I worked for I-tech 7 in the north sea last year, and found the total opposite. Good crews, good craic, and whilst the equipment was rather old and decrepit, it was fully serviceable and we didn’t run downtime. Beach support was poor though using gomars.
Then again, we were their dream team !! 😆 😆 😆 (but if mech-tech is right maybe the bar is set loooow !!)