Kindly disagree. If a business has a need that is critical to the business, not hiring a person with technical experience to manage technical things is just a mistake (or the business being lazy). I dont understand the shying away from hiring a qualified individual here. The fact is, its 2017 and there actually are a fair amount of qualified technical managers who can communicate and fufill the role.

Many other comments have pointed out various analogies in other fields that reinforce this.