"Experts" and "Analysts"
These two groups of people / organisations are often staffed by people that have never "done the job" and just sit their analysing information and spouting nonsense in reports which are then given credence by a lazy media who's journalists consider it much easier to regurgitate press releases and rerports rather than doing a journalists job.
It's these groups that gave us an inadequate road system, with flawed traffic flow systems, and and completely un-integrated public transport systems - nationwide.
You have to ask, who paid for the report that proposes closing LCY. Was it Shelter, who are lobbying for more affordable housing, the Mayor's Office that still wants Boris Island, or perhaps a group of well heeled local resident NIMBYs? He who pays the piper, usually calls the tune!
Until you know who commissioned which report, you never understand any of the reasoning behind them.