Are you asking why you can't listen to an employee that doesn't exist?

But more to your point, if these oh-so-competent ML practitioners were doing their jobs right, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

The whole reason diversity is championed in hiring is precisely because a single individual's perspective can only see so far. And if you have a monoculture team who has experienced very similar life circumstances, you end up with the kind of narrow perspective that leads to more racist soap dispensers.