In the book "Skunk Works" by Ben Rich (former head of Lockheed's Skunk Works), the authour talks about the behaviour of the military officers. Spy planes weren't seen as valuable/important to the typical officer who was looking to get promoted to higher levels versus the typical sexy fighter jets or bombers.

Just as in any group, there are certain positions that are more prestigious/desired than other positions. Typically the prestige increased the more people that they supervised or valuable pieces of equipment (expensive tanks / fighter jets) in their group.

Then there are other positions with lower prestige / desirability - think support/logistics (unless your org's main revenue stream is support/logistics).

This has little correlation to the effectiveness/impact of the group.

Those who worked well with the current strategies / standard operating procedures, can't see/don't want to see how new technology can be used to operate more effectively.

Imagine how army officers treated those who wanted to use airplanes in the period from World War I to World War II.