I get a weird feeling playing this game, imagining that I'm a CEO that doesn't actually know the details of what developers, Marketing, and Design actually do,

I get a weird feeling playing this game, imagining that I'm a CEO that doesn't actually know the details of what developers, Marketing, and Design actually do, but I'm optimizing it based on external feedback only. This gives a plausible account of how many bad decisions can be made in good faith without better two-way internal communication.