[ivanhoe]

I've been on a couple of projects like that, and in my experience the real reason behind this logic is that manager and product owner this way may make themselves indispensable, they can't ever get fired without practically killing the project (until it becomes completely unmaintainable and slowly dies off)

[potta_coffee]

It could be worse, the product owner could be killing the project by their presence instead.

[ldng]

And then they leave