Of the three hackathons that have been arranged in my current job over the span of three years none of them have had any bearing on direction, design, requireme

Of the three hackathons that have been arranged in my current job over the span of three years none of them have had any bearing on direction, design, requirements, or processes. It's been pointless. This isn't because what was researched and created wasn't relevant or valuable, it was because (mis)management just discarded the results immediately. Every hackathon entry could have either saved months of work or prevented the shitshow of broken and bug ridden software we have now (again, a result of mismanagement but hey we're Agile© so everything must be good). It's beyond frustrating seeing the management hand-wringing over issues that would have been fixed by now. None of the devs are empowered to use the results and research at all. Absolutely pointless and entirely lip services to the devs. It's put me off ever getting involved in any future ones here.