Digression, but this is my current complaint at my job at a Big Tech Company: we're now so big that we have product managers for everything that dictate what we

Digression, but this is my current complaint at my job at a Big Tech Company: we're now so big that we have product managers for everything that dictate what we can and can't work on and they hold a monopoly on customer data that's used to justify new product decisions. Engineers who have been around for years and started the product from the ground up, worked with customers to understand their needs, and have a good idea of what features may be valuable to them going forward are being ignored because now everything needs a business analyst to approve the idea. Some of the best products in the world came out of experimenting and just building something cool - I could never imagine many products that now support business analysts and product managers salaries getting the green light from them if they were pitched from scratch.