Non-technical managers often fail to account for the Inventor's Paradox [1]. They assume more general solutions will necessarily require more resources. This is

Non-technical managers often fail to account for the Inventor's Paradox [1]. They assume more general solutions will necessarily require more resources. This is often not the case even if you ignore the resources which would be allocated to problems (solved in the general case) that you do not yet have. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_paradox