Antecdotally in my experience there is also the fact that in large companies some functions no longer need to exist. That being said you have leaders who arent

Antecdotally in my experience there is also the fact that in large companies some functions no longer need to exist. That being said you have leaders who arent going to volunteer this and lose thier power or job so they clamp down and create middle management holds such as bureacracy or fierce protection of a function etc.