When someone says "MBAs are bad/dumb/incompentent" that's not actually what they mean, it's just a shortcut for not being able to adequately explain themselves.

When someone says "MBAs are bad/dumb/incompentent" that's not actually what they mean, it's just a shortcut for not being able to adequately explain themselves. It's tough to give words to all the little nuances that form this kind of opinion. At a high level, when a company is bringing in the MBAs, it means they have found their gold mine and the MBAs are being brought in to mine every little cent from it. When this happens, the development priorities change. Your features get chopped up into buckets that the business charges clients more for. A simple, dinky little feature that is probably two lines of code gets walled off from those users so we can charge these users 10x more. We sit there, as developers, saying to ourselves, "wtf, why would they do that? It doesn't cost the company anything extra to run two lines of javascript...". On and on this goes until you reach the point that you stop developing entirely because your clients can't be squeezed for cash any more.