I once thought this was a good thing that meant I was safe and well taken care of while being treated as family. Then I realized this also applied to all of the people who were genuinely terrible at their jobs, making horrible decisions for the company, affecting not just my ability to do good work, but the company’s ability to provide. Nobody ever got fired and bad managers got promoted because nobody was ever critical of them. The rot spread and the company never reached the heights of their earliest success.