I broadly agree, highly. I do think it's at least worth considering a framing, that most product & orgs are closer to sales- their whole objevtive is to land ne

I broadly agree, highly. I do think it's at least worth considering a framing, that most product & orgs are closer to sales- their whole objevtive is to land new money, to find huge new revenue sources. There's some market competition, but even within markets the focus on competing via new big banner big splashes far overwhelms the deeper level of caring that engineers & those further down see. Dissonance, more dissonance. The org generally lacks the ability to understand what is really possible, the value of what it can do, the knowledge of what it is. I do think there's hella shady terrible exploitative behaviors, and plenty of gloryhounding only interested in new splashy features, but underneath this all, tech is super impervious & they just have no clue. And how could they? I have the hardest time imagining how even the best intended company can have a hope of having anyone with an iota of power make a reasonable & informed decision- the org has to play pretend, operate as if it understands anything, because the fact that it knows as pathetically little about what it is & how it works is unmanageable. For small orgs this can be avoided, but so quickly fiefs spring up & we start limiting our scope, learning go think only of less, & not the whole.