In reality, management breaking anything down into smaller tasks, instead of people who will actually do the work, breaking things down, is going to lead to ZER

In reality, management breaking anything down into smaller tasks, instead of people who will actually do the work, breaking things down, is going to lead to ZERO architecture and a shit codebase, 100% of the time. This is just another way of saying management is incompetent. There's no project management strategy that is going to overcome incompetent project managers.