I wonder if this is the result of divvying up the work and outsourcing to various groups? i.e. no individual group knows what is going on, they just have certai

I wonder if this is the result of divvying up the work and outsourcing to various groups? i.e. no individual group knows what is going on, they just have certain objectives they must do in order to get paid. Such as, "Create a web page with 5 random letters that a person needs to type in order to get to the next page..." Perhaps "CAPTCHA" wasn't even in the design description?