I agree with your theory. I find the company I work at really interesting, I think it had the opportunity to have engineers as managers, but over time, more and

I agree with your theory. I find the company I work at really interesting, I think it had the opportunity to have engineers as managers, but over time, more and more engineers decided not to become managers, and as that happened, more managers were hired from outside sources, which tended to be non-engineering managers (or managers who hadn't done actual software work for decades). I would not be surprised if this is a common issue. Apple takes the approach of essentially forcing their best engineers to become managers. [0] https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovation https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovatio...