I've seen this happen in private industry and government, and is most of the reason analytics feels like a dead-end career if it is not the primary product of the firm.

"Data science"/analytics groups are a cost center telling management things they do not want to hear, and disrupting management narrative (with receipts). There's no point to it; either you deliver "moneyball"-like opportunities that are ignored, or torture the data to fit existing narratives. In both cases, you eventually get stabbed by an experienced bureaucratic knife fighter.