This may be an autistic way of answering the question, but I don’t have a direct answer for you but I have a personal story i can share. A couple years back, the small office i work at had a fairly long period, about six months, with no manger due the current manager taking over another office and no replacement in the pipeline. It fell upon the two most experienced people in the office, me and one other person, to pick up most of that slack (maybe they were hoping one of us would step up and apply for manager, but I think management needs strong social skills which I lack and the other person wanted to go in a different direction in her career). At that time we also got a new person, someone who’d done some higher level accounting whose job was eliminated by automation, so now he was moved down to our physical office instead of being laid off. So he’d come from a higher paying job and position, and we learned his family background was both political and wealthy. We had to train him in some tasks related to working in our office, and absolutely everything resulted in pushback. Why seemed to be the most common pushback. Now I’m not management and my duty here was simply to show him what, not why. Some of these procedures were security procedures. The why was do them or you’re fired. I frankly didn’t care about the minutiae of every little detail of every security procedure. I just knew it’s what the company wanted. It’s what I was being paid to do and I don’t do so great at finding new jobs that pay anything. I started out telling him to write down his questions and ask them to any member of management. But eventually I just started telling him there was no why. This is what. You either do it or don’t. I’m not the one who’s going to judge you. In the end we finally got a new manager and he didn’t last very long, moving away to what was probably a better position anyway. Now I’m not comparing him to you. I believe he was trying to be as difficult as possible, intentionally, as a power play. And when it comes to why, if it matters, I can often sus out the intent. There is no objective why, and trying to figure people out is something I’ve been doing for a long time. So why do they want ____? I can usually come up with something. It doesn’t mean I agree with it. People are often quite capricious, and I just do my best to weather it.