The US is a managerial state. Been that way since FDR.

Elect the man/woman who'll appoint a couple of hundred temporary managers with minimal hire/fire authority who'll somehow control a permanent bureaucracy of millions, nearly all of whom will certainly outlast the new "boss".

"Experts" rule through elected officials.

By all means, though, vote if it makes you feel better.

(To be fair, the managerial state is really the only way you can guide a country on track to have 400 million citizens.)