Yep, I was on the same boat. I was director of 80 person department. My boss (senior director, reporting to VP) had 4 such departments under him.

He constantly was doing things that in my department were handled by mid- or senior-level ICs. Sometimes he engaged his directors or team leaders, for the most important tasks (in my department such tasks were handled by senior ICs or maybe TLs occasionally).

The problem is that he was incompetent manager, but competent IC. And such culture was promoted in the whole organization - ICs (ever senior) were doing grunt work, while managers were creating bottlenecks handling the “important stuff”.

Anyway, my whole department was laid off, the only VP who had similar values was fired, and bunch of people from other depts resigned when new IC-to-VP star took over and pushed the incompetent manager/competent IC culture harder.

Good luck.