[elteto]

There’s a difference between stupid stubborn and technically competent stubborn. I’ve worked with people who are very smart and absolutely can’t suffer a fool (or some arbitrary rule). They can be annoying to work with because they push against the status quo and sometimes you just want to get the review done and move on. But they are fundamentally right and often times push back hard enough to where things actually change for the better. I don’t mind this too much and sometimes I wish I was more like that. Sure, they could have applied some social grease to make things roll more smoothly , but whatever, people are people.

Then there’s stupid stubborn where it’s just laziness or lack of capacity, or something else. This guy sounds more like that.