100%. Legacy company management finds software engineers who engage in the very relevant question of "what to build" extremely threatening. In my experience t

100%. Legacy company management finds software engineers who engage in the very relevant question of "what to build" extremely threatening. In my experience they actually treat software engineers who behave that way as disloyal. As compared to places like tesla/shopify/etc where the Steve Jobs quote rules the roost: It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.