They Aren’t Bad Leaders. They Are Misplaced.
There is a specific kind of frustration that comes from looking upward in an org chart and realizing that multiple layers of leadership are staffed by people who are clearly intelligent, clearly skilled, and clearly wrong for their roles. Your direct manager rewrites your proposals. Their manager cannot make a strategic decision without a committee. The VP above them treats every product conversation like a sales pitch because that is what got them promoted fifteen years ago.