It's simpler than that. It's accountability.

Whether you communicate, or do without communicating, there needs to be accountability.

When there's no accountability, it boils down to power games, which is what we've always had, because as soon as you start playing accountability, you have to justify why you have power and I don't, and that makes people in power extremely nervous, because most of them are really not that bright and any requirement to use rationality exposes it all too clearly.