it's just the mindset of management 101.. you do not ever let your engineer be bored. literally the first thing they teach in 101 is you deliberately overburden them with crazy THEN set impossible deadline so that they build only the very core and you ship it immediately then refine later. sure the method might be different now, but the spirit of such process is the same, you do not ever let your engineer be bored as boredom is waste, and waste is not efficiency. this is to ensure that creative (value-add) portion is left to the management.