Hopefully it's something that can actually be used to make decisions and not some pandering fluff designed to appease the norms of their own thoughtless and cynical in-group.
On the other hand, maybe it's actually ok to not pretend to have all the answers.
Well, I want to understand why people would actively engage in and promote something so awful and also, on the surface, so illogical and wasteful.
This explanation makes sense at least to me. You cant improve things without first understanding them.