Agreed, same experience for me as an engineer and it's often the engineers who get the blame as their output is the most tangible in that chain of command. I b

Agreed, same experience for me as an engineer and it's often the engineers who get the blame as their output is the most tangible in that chain of command. I believe this is why some of the best Product Owners I've worked with have some understanding of the technical side so that they can push back at the point of feature request rather than accept everything to please business/the client and lay it at the feet of engineers a few weeks down the line. For this reason, I think the engineering manager/technical product owner type of role should start becoming a bit more common especially in startups, where I've seen first hand, POs brought in who subsequently drive products into the ground that were initially engineering led (and which raised the investment in the first place).