I don't overestimate it. The issue is that the company has been this way for more than a decade. Everyone lower down that had any creative beliefs left it a long long time ago. The whole company top to bottom will be absolutely filled with these sycophants. The people working in skilled industries that actually stay in a company like this are ideological true believers or they're so hopelessly ignorant and naive that they can't realise how pointless it is, but even those people give up after just a couple years in such teams.