Originally Posted by
tdracer
I did have first hand experience with the Boeing "Regulatory Authority" - RA - and I often considered it borderline incompetent. There were some good people in the RA, but for the most part it was made up of mindless bureaucrats who only knew processes, not the product.
This is, and has been, widespread policy over a huge range of human activities since "managers" decided that they could manage everything, whether or not they knew anything about it. So, you have to have judgement by process, which ends up with boxes to tick. The people you interacted with might have been deeply frustrated by the whole thing, too; or, they might have been box-tickers hired to fit in with the New World. It's part of the retreat from giving competent professionals some trust and respect. Everywhere, I'm afraid.