I’ve never seen an HR dept. with any real authority, and I’ve seen them overruled multiple times by the people that make money for the company.
The fact that it isn’t a revenue generator probably consigns them to a back seat in many discussions.
I expect that we’ve seen different companies, and both admit that our experiences are “limited”.
It’s the Federal HR departments in the Federal Agencies who push this stuff and use it to make a direct impact on the way the government “enforces” laws and operating procedures.
HR is putting all the woke crap (content) on the company intranet which you are bombarded with multiple times per day that creates this “culture”. Also, where do all the losers who “graduated” with women’s studies, black history, and transgender studies “degrees” wind up because other companies departments laugh at those degrees?