I work for the government and a lot of the consultants I've come across have been hired by incompetent leadership to try and fix broken processes that said lead

I work for the government and a lot of the consultants I've come across have been hired by incompetent leadership to try and fix broken processes that said leaders truly can't solve. The government regularly hires consultants to try and fill deficits caused by poor/weak leadership. We have a consultant right now doing 'process improvement' on one of the easiest processes I can think of, simply because no one wants to handle a difficult conversation with some powerful people who are gumming up the works with their inane power maneuvering. Of course, no consultant is ever going to point out that the problem is leadership to the people who hired them.