You are getting emotional because you don't what you are talking about. IRGC has saved Iran AND the entire region on numerous occasions, starting from Iran-Iraq war and as recently as destroying ISIS and Saudi intrusion in Yemen in a cost efficient manner. IRGC is a pragmatic no-bullshit organisation. They get the job done!
Nobody has said that. That is your perception. IRGC always goes for the cheapest and most effective platform that gets the job done. And wether you like it or not, it is much more cost efficient with ballistic missiles, potent air defence, cruise missiles and UCAVs. However, IRGC has never claimed that blue water navy is a bad thing, but they are smart enough to understand that having blue navy just to have a blue navy is not a good enough reason.
No one is applauding. However, with new systems there is a certain incubation time. When it comes to mechanical products, that time cannot be compressed as much as it can with fields that are purely digital. Many aspects of mechanical engineering is also digital and hence Iran could enter completely new fields, rather quickly. However some fields such as metallurgy have very limited digital design tools and thus the testing you do is basically what has been done for 150 years.
Germany started experimenting with submarines since 1850. That is almost 100 years of experience before WWII. That is three to four generations of engineers coming and going and slowly iterating and learning.
As I wrote before when it comes to some fields of mechanical engineering there are no feasible digital tools, hence no short cuts. You need to put the manual hours. Tensile and compression testing is to name a few.
Getting the right alloy is one thing. Then you need to construct gigantic steel mills to produce your alloy. This is no fvcking joke! Its not Kalehs "maste-moo-sir" production. 15 years is a bargin and really fast pace!!!!
That would be marvellous, but people need food on their table as well.
The reason for why IRGC developed a business branch was because of the vast corruption in Iranian economy where for every project that was getting ordered there was bokhor bokhor in every stage of the operation. Once again IRGC got the work done.
That is because central development components of Missiles, Radars, EW and even UCAVs have big portion of digitalisations. Control systems are mostly digital. Managing big data from radars is digital. The sole reason Iran could bring down the RQ was because they could catch up to state of the art technology by digital iterations.