I disagree.
Incompetence is endemic in this Government. It is not there on purpose or deliberately manufactured. It is the result of people who share the same dogma, and who have the same abilities (or more accurately, inabilities) as their contemporaries.
As for International Development and the Foreign Office merging, that is a no brainer thing to do. Obviously it is not a merger, it is an hostile takeover.
It is straight out of Cummings plan to reorganise Westminster and Whitehall, and not something made up on the fly to take attention away from the Corona fiasco.