Sometimes giving people what they want can be bad for them; management wants cheap compliant workers, management gets cheap compliant workers, and then the projects fall apart in easily predictable and preventable ways.

Because such failures are so common management typically isn’t punished when they do so it’s hard to keep interests inline. And because many producers are run on a cost plus basis there can be a perverse incentive to do a bad job, or at least avoid doing a good one.