A little while ago, I would have agreed with you. But the last set of tires I bought were for my truck, Cooper tires at Walmart, I was impressed by how well the Walmart tire employees did. They torqued the wheels making sure the torque wrench was moving when it clicked, double checked the torque in the stall and then took the truck out on the parking lot and did two figure 8’s and rechecked the torque again.
A couple of weeks later, one wheel was destroyed in a minor accident, they honored the warranty and provided a new tire. I had to get a full set of new wheels because I could not get a replacement for the one damaged (not repairable either). The remounted all the other tired on the new wheels for just the mounting fee, the lifetime balance carried over from the initial purchase.
The local Walmart here may be an outlier though when it comes to tire service. I have had very bad experiences with Sam’s club though, two different Sam’s Club’s. Again, they could be outliers or Sam’s Club may have upgraded their tire tech training since them. It has been over 20 years since I last used them.