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I believe it's because of the top-down approach to software development. The amount of waterfall in those projects is insane and individual developers are just small cogs in the org and their input is not regarded as important. In German companies one has to be at least a PhD (preferably Privatdozent) to be taken seriously even if their PhD is completely outdated and they never wrote a line of code in their life.

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> I believe it's because of the top-down approach to software development. The amount of waterfall in those projects is insane

It's more about consensus driven decision making and waiting to make a decision until all information is present : risk avoidance behaviour. You mix these two and it's a great recipe for disaster.

I think it's both. And ignorance/arrogance to the problem being them and their management styles. They still don't understand why they're getting outsmarted by Big Tech and China's KP.

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad because of the economical downward spiral this attitude is causing.

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