Useful for burning company's money, perhaps? PS. What you describe seems to be not even about PoC (the rule about PoC is that it should work at all), but about

Useful for burning company's money, perhaps? PS. What you describe seems to be not even about PoC (the rule about PoC is that it should work at all), but about following the herd and inventing a setup to appear busy. But that'd be also not very good environment to stay at, as an employee..