The benefits for the new UI lead are that they don't lose their job due to "having no vision" or something like that. Human psychology is just super bad at reco

The benefits for the new UI lead are that they don't lose their job due to "having no vision" or something like that. Human psychology is just super bad at recognizing when "no action" has saved the day so to make any progress in a corporate setting you need to have visible achievements. Giving such downsides to not changing the UI, no cost is too high for a new UI lead.