Comment by skydhash

> Unfortunately I have a hefty share of war stories where a tech lead's inability to draft a coherent and clear design resulted in project delays and systems riddled with accidental complexity required to patch the solution enough to work

This is also an organizational problem (bad hiring/personal management). If you put an incompetent individual at the helm of a project, then resources (especially time) will be spent horrendously and you will have more problems down the line. That’s true for all type of organizations and projects.