I see two possibilities:
1) You and the OP have discovered a trillion dollar bill on the sidewalk just waiting to be picked up.
2) There's value in what the two of you consider "bullshit".
1) You and the OP have discovered a trillion dollar bill on the sidewalk just waiting to be picked up.
2) There's value in what the two of you consider "bullshit".
For example, a manager reads a Medium article and mandates that everyone on the team spend 2 hours everyday documenting what they did yesterday.
Certainly you'd agree that there is not positive value here - maybe even negative value! This may very well be "bullshit" work!
Of course, we can find "reasons" for anything - even spending 2 hours a day on documentation - but that does not mean they are good reasons. (In fact, they are probably post hoc rationalizations.) We should not assume that just because something is the way it is, it is immediately value-adding. Nor should we assume it's immediately value-subtracting. We just shouldn't assume, which unfortunately, (2) does.
Of course there is value in such bullshit. It rewards the status drive of those who can play the game. Those who don't, get only negative value out of it. Overall, productivity probably suffers. But those in charge do not care because bullshit games allowed them to get where they are and stay there.