this is so underrated. even smart people can do stupid things. but that's only half of the story... second half is culture (and here even european countries are not much better). in real life it is almost always worth more to look strong than to be smart. changing your opinion does not make you look strong - it makes the "other" person look like they've won an argument and that makes you look both weak (you didn't stand your ground) and stupid (you didn't know better). this is both entirely nonsense and perfectly understandable due to the culture (deeper level than propaganda). so nobody who makes it somewhere wants to do it. they will rather invent opposing false story and bend over backwards trying to defend it than concede a point to their percieved opponents... which brings us - here.
grepe
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bingo! it also explains why tech bros consider AI good for everything - they are not really good at or familiar with anything themselves.
on a serious note: to put this in a specific example i will use programing. management/PO/business will have a vague ideas about what needs to be done. they have to explain them to someone in plain human language and let them figure out details of how to turn it into an algorith that does that. that someone has to fill in all the blanks, make many decisisions about unspecified details and implement it. but, in addition to that, they also have to make sure the code is delivered on time, on budget, it will remain easy to maintain and doesn't break anything important. those later details are not something the original stakeholders (business/management/POs) normally have to deal with. it's someone's else's responsibility. it's just annoying to them that they have to deal with another temperamental human and that human can take weeks to make even "simple changes" to their code (because they have to care about all those other things like maintainability)... so when a salesman comes over and offers them they can instead explain the problem to a chatbot and get the code in minutes the proposition sounds irresistible!