Now was the person responsible for JPA being pushed through not a certain senior sir who's surname begins with L and the rest sounds like odour?
On the subject of those lower down the food chain not telling those higher up things are either $hitty, or about to get that way. Where I work the FS, along with numerous SNCOs/JNCOs told those above their vision for improvement was a disaster waiting to happen. Their response? Don't care, make it work or you can kiss goodbye to any advancement past your current rank Flight. Net result is one pi$$ed of section about to loose a very good FS and things about to get worse.