It’s all rather simple really, I can imagine the meetings on the 3rd and 8th floors that preceded what has become policy, an amalgamation of hubris, stupidity and of course Middle Eastern anger and frustration at the gall shown by their slaves errr ungrateful employees who have decided that being an employee isn’t for them anymore.
People of free thought, in this case non bonded Captains can see this for what it is, yet another moment that they have missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
You couldn’t make it up, it’s laughable in its incompetence.