> If they aren't good at their job or it is status quo, they will brush it off. In your example, you rely on them to be even better: you assume that they'll be

> If they aren't good at their job or it is status quo, they will brush it off. In your example, you rely on them to be even better: you assume that they'll be a competent engineer and be able to understand the complexities of day-to-day software development by making a toy PR when many of them haven't done it for years for decades. That's a much stronger assumption than the one that I'm making: that a good VP will listen to their subordinates.