Problem is (as it seems the case in the author's case) when this group (I really loathe the term "adults in the room", by exclusion the rest of people are child

Problem is (as it seems the case in the author's case) when this group (I really loathe the term "adults in the room", by exclusion the rest of people are children or to be treated as such) has people with power that are "well actually" people just there to pontificate from their inflated egos without letting others do their jobs.