What you are seeing is a sort of 'tip of the iceberg' sort of phenomena. It is one of the multitude of consequences of in-person human interaction. Half-said half-understood notions, half of statements spoken being nothing more than jockeying for social status, precise language looked down upon as too severe so adapted into vague statements that people don't ask for clarification of for fear of looking stupid. Tall people and charismatic people most often getting their way. Introverts with factual points to raise demur and go unheard. Things drag on until someone with a forceful personality drive forward an idea through sheer dominance and beats aside any opposition.

And then you get a public action that looks nonsensical. Because the process that formed it was in every way NOT optimized to produce the objectively correct action. In-person interaction is a cancer on the workplace and always has been, though it was far less visible in workplaces where the majority of people were standing on an assembly line putting together the same widget every single day without thinking. In todays world, where mental work is the primary economic activity, it is unavoidable and tremendously destructive. We will look back with amazement on how long we permitted this to linger on for no reason other than the fear the management class has of being made irrelevant by the tools that coordinate and facilitate radically better coworker interaction and the fear of those with forceful personalities of being caught with their pants down when tested on their merits (not that they necessarily will fail on those merits, but personal fears like that are rarely well-founded or rational).