Maybe people just mistake who the audience is, thinking they know what the audience wants, but not actually knowing the audience in the first place. (I’m not saying you don’t know anything, but I can’t say what comes next without offering the above-referenced general statement)
In at least one other major area connected to finance but which is not finance, a group of stakeholders decided a few years back at their quadrennial board meeting that someone who finally, actually said something was more desirable than someone who offered the same empty platitudes that had seemingly been the preferred way of communicating for decades. Even though the individual finally saying something was not speaking from the list of approved topics in the approved manner, it still was appealing to many for that very reason.
But the obvious caveat is that unlike the audience that took a certain variety of action at the quadrennial, I’m probably not the target audience of LP. But who knows what it was, that’s the Dick Tracy decoder ring I didn’t get in my Cracker Jack box so I don’t have the answer certain.