For a few glorious years, I had a manager who was a senior developer but also a PM who was a customer-focused "people person", and the two of them got along gre

For a few glorious years, I had a manager who was a senior developer but also a PM who was a customer-focused "people person", and the two of them got along great. This is the best situation, if you can manage to find it, and we were a wonderfully functional and efficient team before inevitably it drifted apart as people reshuffled. The point is, you can have both.