[pessimizer]

You haven't applied Hanlon's Razor properly. They're just coordinating incompetence that they find beneficial, not being malicious.

[kwhitefoot]

If you are coordinating the incompetence then you are malicious even if the incompetent are not.

[devwastaken]

Someone in authority said or inferred some version of "don't talk about this, don't get involved". That's malicious.

[DangitBobby]

I think it's more likely that no one wanted to take ownership of it, so no one did.

[GauntletWizard]

Sufficiently weaponized incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

[babypuncher]

The act of weaponizing incompetence is itself malicious.