Upper management types consider themselves masters of the universe, cf. Trump's sharpie showing Dorian on track to hit Alabama and the attempted retaliation against NOAA truth tellers
Engineers (and other techies) understand there's no bending the laws of physics and math.
To be honest, the aerodynamics folks have a much better record of success than the software folks – dead bodies are harder to explain away than failed software.
I have seen several failed software projects. Management has the blinkers firmly screwed on and hangs on to MBA hallucinations.