Eh, folks ill-suited for their jobs exist in all areas. I've worked in 13 different industries and my father was an organizational compensation consultant who worked with every organization known to human beings. (He also worked in academia and hated it. He warned me away from it. The worst industries to work for are: Academia, Publishing, Entertainment (Television/Film), and Video Game Development, also Fashion (why? Serial bullying, harassment of various sorts, etc.) Also have co-workers who worked in the administrative areas of academia. Academia is notorious for hiring ill-suited folks, with huge egos, and no zip. I can count on one hand the number of good professors I had, who actually could teach their subjects.

The Academic arena - from my friends who are in it right now - is struggling right now. There's a lot of incompetency, particularly in the humanities - history. Part of the problem with our country is our piss-poor educational system which doesn't value critical thinking. And that problem doesn't just lie with the professors, but other factors. (Example the school libraries pulling books to prevent critical race theory from being taught. Or the financial scam that various big name universities pulled to scam students out of their financial aid.)

I love talking to folks about what they do for a living, and have jumped around a lot myself - I can say with absolute certainty - you will run into incompetency everywhere.