So much damage is done by the wrong people being constantly rewarded and promoted for creating noise by "leading" large pointless projects instead of doing the real work. Sometimes I've seen the new hire engineer solving the critical issues like problems in a data pipeline by collaborating across teams is actually having more impact that any of the senior engineers or management bsers.

And it's not because the problem is "that hard", it's because AMD doesn't have many skilled engineers like you mentioned at the end of your post (basically contradicting yourself!), and won't prioritize the right issues.