[8ytecoder]

Part of the reason for that - especially in tech - is we keep hiring people utterly unsuited to manage others. Pretty much every manager I've had is a software engineer in the past. But, only one manager was a true manager who helped me with the technical stuff, career and personal growth. The rest were all great people but totally inadequate as a manager.

In tech and pretty much every company I've worked at, you need to get into a managerial position to be able to have a say in what get built and how much you get paid. Programming fatigue and frustration with being told what to do also sets in after a while. The two together convinces people who are terrible with their people management skills to chase a manager-path career.

Essentially, you're diagnosing the symptom to be the cause.