I'm definitely not claiming to know what's good/bad for a company I've never worked for, I'm saying the perception from outside is that companies hit these size

I'm definitely not claiming to know what's good/bad for a company I've never worked for, I'm saying the perception from outside is that companies hit these sizes, hire massive amounts of people to do something, and then the products almost universally become worse. Maybe it's just big-company-itis.