Tech people tend to be good at tech (duh), but not as good at relating to people. Well, government, politics, and civics are all about relating to people - many of them who are different from you, and different from each other.
So, as you say, the tech people are unsuited for this role - maybe even uniquely unsuited. But they don't know what they don't know, and in blissful, arrogant ignorance, they decide that of course they'd be great at it. They wouldn't. They'd be terrible at it, even at local government.
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Tech people tend to be good at tech (duh), but not as good at relating to people. Well, government, politics, and civics are all about relating to people - many of them who are different from you, and different from each other.
So, as you say, the tech people are unsuited for this role - maybe even uniquely unsuited. But they don't know what they don't know, and in blissful, arrogant ignorance, they decide that of course they'd be great at it. They wouldn't. They'd be terrible at it, even at local government.
Tech: "Government is easy, just kill everyone and replace them with robots".
Of course that isn't significantly different than authoritarianism: "Government is easy, just kill anyone that says anything bad about you".
Turns out democracy is just really hard.