And if you do understand both, nobody believes you/they spend their time undermining you. The problem is that a lot of technical people won't listen to anybody

And if you do understand both, nobody believes you/they spend their time undermining you. The problem is that a lot of technical people won't listen to anybody who didn't work in their precise subfield for X years, and the non-technical people won't listen to someone without (for example) an MBA, even when that person is bridging a gap. Of course I'm not as good at coding as a developer who's done this full time for 2 decades or as good at business decisions at most C-suite people (or I'd be running my own business), but I've been doing web development for over 20 years, and I've managed a few projects + have studied how to run an organization at the graduate level. Most of the time when I notice things and bring them up, all it does is either get me more work or it's just ignored anyway. Part of it is that the tech and non-tech people don't understand one another, but another part is that they each think their way of thinking is the one best way.