All of this is in a context where it's assumed that participants _know_ the goals of the person under consideration, can straight-forwardly evaluate whether act

All of this is in a context where it's assumed that participants _know_ the goals of the person under consideration, can straight-forwardly evaluate whether actions are in line with those, and where the _participant's_ goals are framed to not be a part of the discussion. In real life, how often are these true for power that matters? - as an IC, I generally don't have the information an exec has, and cannot easily judge which choices are aligned with stated goals - as a voter, I'm regularly unsure which goals that a politician says publicly are their real goals - and for any situation where I'm close enough to judge the actual suitability of actions, and the intents of the participants, I probably have enough of a stake that my view of who should be in control is swayed by what outcome I want