This is tongue firmly in cheek, but I think it really drives home your "Communication is hard" point.

Have you tried reading the meeting agenda and minutes the average engineering manager makes? It's like a freshman essay -- lacking in cohesion, vision, context. It's usually completely unstandardized across teams.

And 9 times out of 10 the most fundamental questions aren't answered in the meetings e.g. "Why don't we just use existing tool X to solve this problem?"