Look at the corporate headquarters with its modern leadership that has no brand loyalty, no product loyalty, no customer loyalty, no reputation and marketing loyalty, no loyalty to what the corporation may have spent 100 years building and establishing.
Over and over we see modern leadership moving in as vampires for short-term gain or just making stupid decisions because of ideas that don’t even belong in corporate board rooms, rather than people coming in to sustain the success and momentum of the great business model they are taking over.
I (as an engineer) think it may have to do with the rise of the MBA crowd