FWIW, I did that for years quite successfully in an organisation with about 80 engineers! At that scale, it works, in my experience, not worse than an org with

FWIW, I did that for years quite successfully in an organisation with about 80 engineers! At that scale, it works, in my experience, not worse than an org with lots of managers - they're gonna do infighting amongst each other at a certain size anyway :P