It's not the manager's job to make technical decisions or choices of this nature, or at least it really shouldn't be. The manager should be there to act as an

It's not the manager's job to make technical decisions or choices of this nature, or at least it really shouldn't be. The manager should be there to act as an umbrella and protect the engineers from the morons, the technical leadership leads the engineering team, and they make choices on what is high priority to get things done.