I've worked here five years (it feels much longer, though) and I'm still surprised by the decisions leadership makes. It's like common sense goes out the window once you reach a certain level. They roll out policies that actively make our jobs harder. They invest in technology that doesn't work. They promote people who have no idea how to manage. I don't know if it's always been this way or if it's getting worse, but the overall stupidity is hard to ignore.
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I am not surprised. Knowing what I have personally heard and witnessed. These "leaders" don't truly work together for the best interest of anyone but themselves. All they care about is how they look to those higher up than them. So, they will do whatever they will to cover up, conceal, lie, gaslight, and undermine anyone at their level or lower to save their reputation with the higher ups. They fight with each other over budgets, "steal" departments from each other, using the above tactics, the majority cannot effectively work with each other unless their leader is watching and their leader is just doing the same thing above. Its toxic and it trickles down and the little people are the ones that have to suffer because they have to deal with the fallout, processes that are cr-p, systems that don't work, no money for hiring, and/or decent raises. They just keep piling it on the little people while they are getting the money and causing the chaos. Most of them have no clue what their departments even really do so making decisions in a vacuum, so that doesn't help at all.
It isn't just a lack of intelligence, it is a lack of curiosity. To actually fix things usually means following a process upstream and engaging other areas. It is easier to just try to CYA and only focus on what can be directly attributed to you, then it is to try to actually try to fix the problem. It is like a movie set where they stand outside the fake storefront, polish the windows and try to look like their store is in order when senior leadership rides by, but if you walk around the back there is nothing there but supports holding up the facade. And the Senior leadership just rides on by and doesn't try to look that closely. Add to that they have a ton of fawning townspeople who stand out front telling them how great everything is. The movie sets are getting wobbly and are about to start falling down.
Been that way since I arrived almost two decades ago. You will drive yourself crazy if you try to apply logic and common sense in this place. Try to lay low, run under the radar and collect a paycheck until the job market improves.