Yeah, this creates some sort of "moat of knowledge" that increases status if you make something easy look difficult. Also could make someone appear to be less

Yeah, this creates some sort of "moat of knowledge" that increases status if you make something easy look difficult. Also could make someone appear to be less replaceable ("we would have to think about something that looks hard to replace person XYZ!"). There's also the danger of overfitting when building the mental model or process.