Having work in a similar environment, I know at least one company where most managers have a hardware/electronics background, because their product was mostly H

Having work in a similar environment, I know at least one company where most managers have a hardware/electronics background, because their product was mostly HW when they started to work 20 years ago. But now, the split is more akin to 80%SW/ 20%HW and they are managing SW developers without having much idea of what SW development consists of. I know at least of one example of a top engineering manager not understanding what version control was : "Please merge all the features but not the bugs from branch X". (Which is a noble goal in itself, but might be hard to attain !)