[cudgy]

Perhaps you underestimate the amount of protection that this class of people provide for themselves. There’s a reason that these groups have golden parachutes and other such protection mechanisms that allow them to exist well beyond any individual contributors. Observe the number of incompetent executives and politicians at the highest level that effortlessly fail upwards.

[sitkack]

I don't, I have attended enough closed doors QBRs and witnessed the effortless upwards failure.

They aren't going to replaced by their own, that is for sure.