Yeah, you are right. Where I've seen it work is when an embedded IC is given free reign to spend time helping other teams organically. The real root cause for

Yeah, you are right. Where I've seen it work is when an embedded IC is given free reign to spend time helping other teams organically. The real root cause for architecture in abstraction is a management issue where some VP is kingdom building by collecting engineers to be disconnected oversight architects to other engineering groups. I feel like one of the worst things that can be done to engineers is disconnecting them from the problems being solved.