I have seen women's races where every team spent the entire race riding along watching each other while waiting for the sprint. Women were regularly chastised for riding so defensively. The truth is that it wasn't the women's fault because they were just riding the way they were coached to ride. They were simply doing what they had been told to do by their coaches. Ironically, many of the women's critics were the coaches who had taught them to race defensively.
Riders can only race the way they are coached to race.
All but a few of the coaches who had learned complex team tactics went into men's racing and quickly rose to the top. This meant that most riders, especially at the lower level and other classes, didn't have access to their knowledge. Actually, it was caused by circumstance. The coaches can't be blamed for not learning something they were not exposed to and, therefore, were just doing their best with what little they had been able to learn on their own. Unfortunately, you can only teach what you know.