One of the engine programmers tried to explain, but she shook her head and went back to her office.

...Maybe they shouldn't be making their way into managing engineering then?

To be fair, the lady in question, Jen, did come around in the next paragraph. However, it still highlights the extremely annoying problem of doing non-visual work under visual(-only) people -- one then has to actively create visuals.

This quote from Feynman expresses a similar idea: https://fs.blog/richard-feynman-on-beauty/