You may not be wrong, in fact you are very likely right, but this is not an argument. The larger an org gets the more likely it is to do weird things to mitiga

You may not be wrong, in fact you are very likely right, but this is not an argument. The larger an org gets the more likely it is to do weird things to mitigate organizational difficulties be them budget, human or otherwise. Those types of things rarely show up in postmortems for obvious reasons.