Ask HN: Should Vice Presidents still be coding/in the weeds?

I work for a company that has an Engineering department with about 100 folks total. I am a team lead and am 3 levels below the CTO (CTO -> VP -> me -> my reports). My team is starting a new project next week and my boss (the VP) just announced he will be a developer on the project. He has been involved in the project since the beginning approving all the stories, architectural diagrams, designs, etc (he expects everything to be ran through him first). I haven't work for many other companies so I don't know if this is normal VP function to be this into the weeds. He is like this in other teams at the company, inserting himself into their projects. Is this normal at other companies?