Have you considered that many times the ones who get the job done are women and people of color?

You keep claiming that people promoted by quotas are unqualified. But most of them have way better CVs, work experience and projects than their counterparts. And they get results even when they give them the worse assignments.

But considering that you think that you can work in software and spend a whole week without a job meeting, well, I would say that your work experience doesn't reflect the sector. Specially if we talk about SaaS. But even if we are talking about local systems, communication is key for getting good results.

The "Diva engineer" who refuses to document, comment the code, teach or collaborate with coworkers and listen to them won't get far in the industry. It is not productive to have programmers like that because if they get ill or leave the company, you would be forced to do reverse engineering on the code. And that would be costly and take time. So any CIO worth his title, won't want that for the company.