It projects an air of lack of involvement and therefore neutrality/lack of bias? People will often fall back to passive voice (and other linguistic acrobatics)

It projects an air of lack of involvement and therefore neutrality/lack of bias? People will often fall back to passive voice (and other linguistic acrobatics) when they don't want seem like they're weighing in one way or another. For example, accident reports will sometimes go on with something like "Braking maneuver attempted without success".