Goals are what you want to end up with. Plans are how you intend to go about getting there. Planning is the systematic method by which you formulate plans, including the method to adapt to changing circumstances and still keep the goal (reasonably) intact. Above all, it lets you overcome gaps in the plans and even reformulate the goals to better fit the circumstances, which is why it's said that plans are nothing and planning is everything.
CI¬G used to have a jumble of goals. They've largely stopped acknowledging those since they ended up never fitting together, and they kept changing, which made them whims, not goals.
They have no plan, just a jumble of tasks with little to no context or meaning, in large part because there is no goal to speak of and any time some new whim comes up, a new incoherent set of tasks is created along with it.
And they certainly have no planning, since they can't ever get out of the habit of creating jumbles or never sticking to anything. I's why there is no roadmap: because they fundamentally lack both the ability and the foundation needed to create one.
Plans are nothing, planning is everything — CI¬G have less than nothing.
As the saying goes,
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