Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships
  “We do not put a premium on being good mariners,” Hoffman
  said. “We put a premium on being good inspection takers
  and admin weenies.”

This is a problem across the DoD, not just the Navy. I've seen it first hand in both military and civilian sides of the USAF. It's comparable to the degradation of the US public schools with extensive testing. The tests that start as attempts to evaluate and quantify effectiveness become the goals themselves, rather than measures of the true goals.