I think there's a general desire for a single employee to do all the things because it's easier to put "all the things" in a job description than to set up an e

I think there's a general desire for a single employee to do all the things because it's easier to put "all the things" in a job description than to set up an environment in which specialists effectively interact. My employer, for one, has taken it to an extreme in making incentives such that one should have the necessary domain knowledge to find a problem to solve without being told what to work on, then go build the thing from the ground up.