> Oh yeah, the people that really build these companies in the first place were squeezed out it seems.

There seems to be a misunderstanding about the age of these companies. Both are a hundred years old - the founders died long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz

Maybe you are wrong in your assessment that they are doing nothing year after year. Did any news of Volkswagen electric vehicles reach you?

Sure. Nothing was more pathetic than seeing a tv ad telling me about an electric VW car that I can not buy because it's not ready... This ad was preceded by another ad that was full of electric concept vehicles. None of it exists in reality.

Exactly. Engineers need to be in charge of engineering companies. Boeing is a case study in what happens otherwise.

Maybe you are wrong in your assessment that they have everything they need.

Possible. But I know how they operate and they loose a lot of effort on nothing really.