> My experience with teams where people are divided by topics for a long time is that unpleasant work that does not fit into a single topic well gets neglected.

> My experience with teams where people are divided by topics for a long time is that unpleasant work that does not fit into a single topic well gets neglected. I doubt it isn't the case either way. If you neglect understanding and development of expertise, you will still end up with some people having more expertise than others, and possible blind spots. Except now you have no idea what those blind spots are. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970937)