Building a product from scratch is very different from maintaining a product. It stands to reason that those that make the product don't need to be the same gu

Building a product from scratch is very different from maintaining a product. It stands to reason that those that make the product don't need to be the same guys who maintain and extend it. Do you really need a software architect after the major architecture has been built? Do you need a senior automation engineer when everything has been automated? Its really a waste of the company's money and the workers' time to have highly experienced and perhaps specialized doing maintenance work - it also leads to unnecessary projects in order to keep those people interested and engaged.