> And you're taking statements like "lost a couple of deals last quarter due to engineering challenges" as being a personal slight against the engineering team

> And you're taking statements like "lost a couple of deals last quarter due to engineering challenges" as being a personal slight against the engineering team when an impassioned observer would not really see it that way. I have no opinion on this broader company, but you focused on the wrong part of the sentence. OP was focused on "I can help solve in weeks but would take my team months on their own" -- something that indeed is throwing your engineering team under the bus to me, an impassioned observer.