This doesn't resonate at all with me. If anything, the most disengaged decision makers are often the ones to resort to micromanagement to cover their incompeten

This doesn't resonate at all with me. If anything, the most disengaged decision makers are often the ones to resort to micromanagement to cover their incompetence. They don't have the skill or context to make the actual impactful decisions so they start filling up the backlog with useless (but tractable and measurable) tasks. Micromanagement seems to function as an excuse to keep people looking busy, so you can avoid hashing out the real macro issues.