Yes, but conversly after too long at the top, this leads to some professors thinking they know about everything and approaching a problem like they're an expert

Yes, but conversly after too long at the top, this leads to some professors thinking they know about everything and approaching a problem like they're an expert. Feeling stupid isn't good, relising you don't know everything and how that doesn't make you stupid is. Especially when you then harness that into driving yourself to learn about whatever that is, childcare, science, politics... If you start to act like you can do no wrong then you get situations like academics system getting hacked. The IT guys have to deal with the fall-out, and the academic is still demaning that they get full root access to do the same thing all over again despite not learning from the situation.