These projects don't just appear out of thin air and get funded. It's because solutions don't exist to meet their unique requirements which often you don't get

These projects don't just appear out of thin air and get funded. It's because solutions don't exist to meet their unique requirements which often you don't get visibility of unless you're in the team. But of course that will never stop HN commenters assuming they know better about the situation than the engineers and managers that work there.