You're free to ignore Conway's law[1] and the like at your own risk. I would argue that if software or organizations were straightforward to apply such rigor t

You're free to ignore Conway's law[1] and the like at your own risk. I would argue that if software or organizations were straightforward to apply such rigor that you'd see something closer to hardware where formal verification plays a much larger role(to be fair there's also the aspect of hardware/ASIC respin costs here as well). As a byproduct I think you see much less autonomy or even diversity of job roles in that space because a good portions of the problems are considered "solved". This is not a knock against hardware(it's hard!) but more that the design space of large scale software projects involve a diverse set of teams and people so you see similar patterns arise. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law