[Mizoguchi]

Lack of domain knowledge usually increases the amount of management you need too.

In software development for example your teams become much larger because you made the wrong decisions by not understanding the scope and requirements, selecting the wrong stack and tools and hiring the wrong people.

So now you need more management all the way from HR to procurement, engineering, support and legal to brute force your way into delivering.

And all these salaries and benefits need to be paid which means now there's less money to hire and retain qualified engineers and to invest in improving your products and services.

Once an organization falls in this cycle is very hard if not impossible to change, it becomes part of the culture.