Why is your lawyer doing that?
You have every right to ask your attorney why they are doing things in your case. I have had cases in which the other side consistently took positions that were unreasonable and, frankly, that they could not (and did not) win. I had the impression that the client on the other side did not know that their attorney was taking these positions.
For example, recently I had an attorney oppose a routine motion I filed on behalf of my client in a post-divorce modification. It was such a routine motion that