That may all be so but pilots live in a very insulated (the most insulated in my view) section of any given airline, particularly large legacy carriers. IQ and BS detectors are not what it takes to run a large company that has to deal with ALL aspects of a business as opposed to one small section.
Except that it's the ONLY department that actually generates the main stream of income. All other departments are secondary to flight ops. Flights stops, so does your airline.
Problem in airline management these days is that no flightops people get senior management in any airline and people from other departments end up pushing their own barrows which has NOTHING to do with your core business.