Given the right support, I've seen lower-knowledge managers really do well. I think a lot of the worse situations I've seen were when someone didn't realize the

Given the right support, I've seen lower-knowledge managers really do well. I think a lot of the worse situations I've seen were when someone didn't realize their technical judgement was inapplicable or rusty, and that they needed to defer to their experts. This is tricky, of course -- for low-level managers with typical engineer IC reports especially, it's super common for them not to have a single report whose judgement they can trust.