[TeMPOraL]

> either people aren't as dumb as people believe or they know what to report to not fall into this "let me take over here, you seem to have messed up" category.

Exactly. If you're starting to get stuck and you're afraid to ask for help, the last thing you're going to do is making that obvious in front of the whole team and/or your boss. If you didn't believe you can manage it on your own, you'd have asked for help already.