That's just lack of leadership skills and possibly incompetence about subfields of development they don't have experience with. It can become toxic in its own w

That's just lack of leadership skills and possibly incompetence about subfields of development they don't have experience with. It can become toxic in its own way when the first bully/troll is hired since that person will pull the wool over this poor dev manager's eyes and make everyone else's lives terrible through bikeshedding and pointless meetings to debate unnecessary architecture proposals.