This is correct i have worked with C levels in the past and can tell you. Sometimes they force their workforce to use a product or tech for the sole purpose that they have an investment in it. You ever wonder why your company changed process work flow and application or vendor when the other one worked just fine and the new solution makes your job harder. It because your C level had it in his portfolio and waned to juice the stock.

Also when it comes to stocks and shareholders it has nothing to do with facts or anything based in reality but just on vibes and perception and the perception is AI make line go up. So it gets pushed on the rest of us.