Key word is retired. Generals are politicians. Colonels and below are followers.
O6 and above make serious retirement money. I would be golfing and living at a gated golfing community. Maybe some fishing on the side.
But after a career of being a coddled pain in the arse of the personnel who actually get the job done, perhaps they feel at a loss for that “value” they invented for the sole purpose of padding their OER’s.