Laugh all you want, but this is an open secret amongst the millions of personnel serving in various clandestine space commands since WWII. Air superiority has governed every war since we could get off the ground, and everybody ran to weaponize space as quickly as possible.

The Air Force doesn't like this reorganization, because they don't want to lose control of all their very cool toys.

The curious researcher will make note that only one U.S. Military Command -- The U.S. Navy -- is Constitutionally chartered, and they (mostly) own this area of operation. There is a reason that Star Trek follows the rank and command structure of the Navy, and not the Army nor Air Force. The other military commands similarly have their own space-faring tech and toys; but the average person might be surprised at how much they don't get along, and forcefully demonstrate their disagreement.

Tip of the iceberg. The rabbit hole goes very deep, and actions like these are to prime the public for better awareness regarding what the "break-away civilization" has been up to for the past half-century (and longer).

It's as if millions of souls cried out ... and were suddenly silenced.

I do not find your assertion compelling.

While it's true that incremental discoveries (and downright "surprises") commonly occur during development (causing us to revise at some level our specification and even design), cities built incrementally are typically not as good as those planned out.

In the United States, Chicago, IL is the only city that *makes money* with its mass transit, because it has a spokes-on-a-wheel rail layout, where everything "goes in" in the morning, and "goes out" in the afternoon (like a breathing organism). Chicago was designed monolithically and (re-)built in a massive effort after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871.

All the other cities that grow incrementally might have other nice aesthetics, but typically grow their own structural problems that aren't/can't be addressed without centralized planning.

For software, if nobody owns the "theory of operation" for "how this thing is supposed to do its job", then you're just wandering in the desert until you finally make up your mind.