You are both wrong. Hire for management, hire team and trust team to do work. Worst thing is a micromanaging manager that thinks they know the work, yet haven’t done it in years. I train program and project managers and this is a recurring problem and shortcoming of many job reqs. You want a manager, you hire a manager, you want an engineer, you hire an engineer. These are two very different skill sets.
BS. You don’t hire music majors to run data security at Equifax. That doesn’t even pass the laugh test.
I wouldn’t expect a music major to be a world-class manager for a department involving security issues for 200 million citizens, and it would appear that this Equifax situation bears that theory out.