I've seen this before, and generally think it tends to be because technical people who have risen to the top as the org grows don't like giving up power, so the

I've seen this before, and generally think it tends to be because technical people who have risen to the top as the org grows don't like giving up power, so they end up holding control over way too many teams/depts and the org suffers for it. (or it's a naive cost saving measure) I would like to see a comparison of org-charts in highly functioning corps of varying size.