While I like your spirit, personal experience tells me that this is a great way to get fired/laid-off/marginalized, etc... Even if the managers like your idea

While I like your spirit, personal experience tells me that this is a great way to get fired/laid-off/marginalized, etc... Even if the managers like your idea and follow through with it 1) the friends of the lower-level managers take umbrage at having been bypassed; 2) the top decision maker might choose to view such bold action-takers as a threat to his/her own position. This also goes for product suggestions, process improvement ideas, etc. People like hierarchy and don't want it (their place in it) threatened. So, if the 3 developers are willing to band together, they should just do so to quit and form their own company.