From my personal experience, when people wish their manager was more technically capable, it indicates some management failure. I am currently managed by a per

From my personal experience, when people wish their manager was more technically capable, it indicates some management failure. I am currently managed by a person who although has a technical background but for a long time is only doing management, so definitely can't do my job. And it is totally fine, because he's not making any technical decisions, these are made by technically excellent people. Examples of management failures that I have seen on the other hand involve product managers and/or people with sales attitude playing product designers or solution engineer's roles. That doesn't end well and creates a lot of conflict between the management and the technical people.