Totally agree up to "There are way too many things..." That seems like blowing a nuance out of proportion. I think what we need is to stop having "flat" feel-g

Totally agree up to "There are way too many things..." That seems like blowing a nuance out of proportion. I think what we need is to stop having "flat" feel-good organizations where everyone gets a say, and similarly we need to stop having corrupt organizations where the most politically savvy person is at the top. We need strong, competent technical leaders who truly know most languages, frameworks, paradigms, and we need to pay them well. They need to take responsibility for the whole project and architecture, ruthlessly simplify, and work with product to define what actual problem is so the team and code doesn't turn into Frankenstein's monster. We need non-corrupt competence hierarchies. </Soapbox>