Exactly. The trend to more is often forced by investors etc, but this thinking is also seeping into developers. I worked in a Softbank startup that start hirin

Exactly. The trend to more is often forced by investors etc, but this thinking is also seeping into developers. I worked in a Softbank startup that start hiring like crazy for positions that weren't necessary, because that's what Softbank asked for. It was a crazy place to work where anything bringing productivity gains and solving developer pain wasn't rewarded. But, of course, we several people working on developer experience, because there was not enough work for all developers. On the other hand, maybe this is a good thing. It means more jobs for developers. More money redistribution. But on the other hand it is soul crushing to see something that could be a 2-hour walk on the park becoming a 3-month transatlantic expedition involving several teams. In the job above, I worked for a few weeks on a team that was responsible for one single screen, and this screen had three checkboxes which we used to update some third-party API. No, there wasn't much more than that. It made me want to kill myself.