The linked article's title is a bit misleading as within its contents is some discussion about the Royal Navy and its amazing growth in numbers of Admirals and also discusses a very similar thing in the US Navy.
Parkinson's Law is mentioned and I am supposing it applies on both sides of the Atlantic and not just to our Navy friends.
The rapid pace of business within the two Navy bureaucracies must be very similar as a Sloth seems like a race horse as a comparison.
Then there is the many Layers between the top knobs and those carrying out operations, which I am sure infects both.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...admirals-89416