I think this is a product of the dominant echelon-based corporate culture. People get promoted from above, which typically means they get promoted by making the

I think this is a product of the dominant echelon-based corporate culture. People get promoted from above, which typically means they get promoted by making their boss look good. Regardless of how good a job a manager is actually doing, if you can pretend like everything under their purview is an act of brilliance, they'll make sure you stick around. This is why you end up in meetings with half the comments being about how "awesome" it is that somebody added a search box to a results page...