[cookiecaper]

Yeah, it's definitely true that a lot of people fail to comprehend the more holistic, bigger picture perspective. There's nothing necessarily wrong with a moderate working pace and building in some redundancy, especially since multiple people with overlapping functions can review one another's work, cover for each other, etc.

This, however, doesn't excuse hiring incompetent people based on appearance and likability with blatant disregard for their competence (I recognize that for many non-technical managers, it is difficult or impossible to discern the quality of one's skillset), nor does it excuse stuffing teams with dead weight just because the hiring manager personally likes the people involved. And those practices are indeed rampant.