I take power outages in stride.

It seems quite likely to me that PG&E's lack of maintenance and replacement of elements of their transmission system are to blame. With the recent major wildfires, some of which were actually caused by PG&E's lack of maintenance of their aging Outside Plant, coupled with not adequately fire braking their transmission lines, they suffered almost insurmountable financial losses. You can either run something with scheduled maintenance, or you can elect to run it until it fails, then deal with making emergency repairs. PG&E has probably adopted the latter policy, because their analysis has told them that this costs them less in the long run.
But we should not make PG&E the scapegoat, because they are "beholden": to a State that has it's "environmental agencies" fleshed out with people who believe that we should "let nature take it's course" when it comes to maintaining our forest lands. Recently, I read that California has something like 20 tons of dead vegetation per acre that should be cleaned up. Go take a drive up highway 88 as do frequently. You will see crews logging, and cleaning up alongside the roadway, taking away the debris from the massive fire that occurred between I 80 and 88 a couple of years ago. They will be at it for years! Finally, PG&E is a shadow of it's former self. It has chosen to sell off most of it's generating plants, and now buys the power it sells us. It is a sad commentary on a public utility that was a "blue chip" investment fifty years ago!