Well, I do not know about the others, but in Poland it is the matter of the ROI in rowing, which is a fairly measurable and comparable quote.
So if you compare the cost of quotas for Poland: (only 2024, there are statistics for other years, but I do not have time now to dig deeper)
2,45M PLN for a quota in rowing
0,68M PLN for a quota in fencing (which was not a focus in Poland in the past years)
1,2M in sailing (which is MUCH more expensive when it comes to the equipment, training areas and so on)
0,95M kayak sports (both sprint and slalom - and we skip the fact that you could use the same athletes in multiple events)
one sees it has become much more expensive to send a rowing athlete to the Olympics. I cannot find the respective data for i.e. 2019, but it was around 12-13M PLN for 20 athletes in Tokyo, which is around 0,6-0,7M PLN for a quota. The cost has then roughly quadrupled between Tokyo olympics and Paris.
This is also a POV on a "disastrous" results - surely not the only angle, but one that widens tne perspective.