> However the majority of the architects I encountered are completely hands-off on the development part which causes lot of problems like teams that are not emp

> However the majority of the architects I encountered are completely hands-off on the development part which causes lot of problems like teams that are not empowered to move fast and ridiculously complex architectures in MVP stages of products I agree with your observation but IMO there is no causality, it's a matter of competence of the architect; and the architect is (should be) in the team, not outside.