I think you're over-inflating the value of people fetching specs back and forth between a pool of customers and design / engineering. If you're a software or h

I think you're over-inflating the value of people fetching specs back and forth between a pool of customers and design / engineering. If you're a software or hardware company, ultimately the people who design and build the software / hardware have to design and build the thing, everything else is ancillary to those tasks.