It's pretty demotivating to have "leaders" who ignore every technical expert in their organization jumping up and down, waving their arms, shouting "Don't buy that!"
Happens all the time, though.
Happens all the time, though.
Ego defense? Desire to participate in the actual work to seem they know what they're leading? Tunnel visioning that they are the CXO in charge of biz and devaluing engineer input in biz-connected decisions?