Getting chosen to work on high visibility features and creating new products seems contrary to what most people qualify as “incompetent”. Now all you are desc

Getting chosen to work on high visibility features and creating new products seems contrary to what most people qualify as “incompetent”. Now all you are describing feels more like a Product Owner’s job than a manager. But even putting that aside, employees also want a manager that makes their group look good, takes high visibility jobs and is good at politics. Having a successful manager greatly helps to get promoted, even if that manager tries to take all the credit. Also nowadays peer reviewing is pretty standard, it’s a lot more credible to present oneself as a good manager of a good team.