@OP. I agree. However, the saddest part is that you'd probably do the same our managers are doing, if you were in their shoes.
Where would a bunch of washed out middle aged people, that had no relevant technical skills in their youth, get a quarter of million dollars or more salaries? So they are now the backbone of the YES men and women at Ford. No pushing back to the crazy stoopid ideas from Bill Ford.
Even AM, who saved the company from bankruptcy, was let go a year earlier by BF. His successor, MF, was sacked because of his concerns about the profitability of the BEVs. AM and MF were good enough to get more million dollar salaries. 90% of our managers would end under a bridge if they lose their comfy jobs at Ford. So the issue starts at the top: the owners of the company => the Ford family.
Bill Ford is a big headache for the company, due to three main reasons:
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He wants to prove himself to the world, he wants to have his own light to shine, leaving the legacy of Ol' Henry behind. That makes him "eager".
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He has no clue of how the real world operates (did anyone see his hurt face when the Union did the strikes, and Fain pushed really hard in the contract? He was lost, didn't know what to say during the Town Hall. "But, but, we were always nice to them"... LOL, there are no friends, nor loyalty in business), and with no technical or science background (He is a History major, with a thesis about the history of his own family, sheesh!). So he is easily "distracted" by half baked dreams or ideas, with no knowledge to realize which ones are doable, and which ones not.
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Finally, the most important of all, the company's dual stock structure, which grants the Ford family a controlling power over it.
If anyone takes a closer look at Ford's history, most of the issues were always in there. However, the tsunami of sh!t started under Bill Ford in 1998, when he was the chairman of the board and Nasser the kn--e was CEO. He first let Nasser to carve out the company, then he took over and brought the company down. His own family ousted him, and AM came to fix "little billy's" mess. So now Billy got his way again, and this is a repeat of 1999-2005, with a twist (BF oversees and can blame the CEOs he picked for his own stoopidity. AM/MF were not swayed, so he had furniture guy and snake oil salesman, which were easily bought by their millions dollars contracts).
There you have it. Bill has "handsomely" paid everyone at FMC to get away with his crazy ideas (even buying a train station). The company will not change while BF is around. So you OP can leave, or you can stay, whatever works best for you. As you already know, working at any company is a business relation (no the "we're family" cr@p that Ford likes to say, but not do).
The job su-ks, more meetings and red tape than technical work, but I have a balanced life and a nice paycheck. I am staying until is convenient for me, even if I have to please some @sshole in management with the latest buzzword.