A CxO can be pure evil, can be the worst egomaniac, can ignore everry concern for the very thing they sell, can treat their staff and customers horribly. All par for the course. Needed for the job.
But naive? It's probably the biggest 'do not hire' sticker you can put on a CxO. It means you're, at your very core, unable to do the job. Unfit for capitalism.
"Oh, we had no idea that would happen, how sad, too late to change, can't blame us for not knowing, we had pure and innocent intentions."
Maybe the distinction is who believes them naive, where the important part (for the executive) is whether the board of directors and/or investors can be convinced it is all part of a masterful plan of deniability.
I've sat in meetings where the magic words 'The minds need to ripen' were code for 'we do exactly what the CxO told us to do, and let them deal with the very predictable consequences'. All kind of politely sounding language was used.
In this text, the world naivity is spoken out loud. It's still a polite thing to say, but very explicit. That's rare enough to make me wonder if someone is trying to character murder the leaders of this company.