Yeah, that's common from what I hear. Also on the UX side you need approvals all the way up the chain even to Toby who can just veto your project a week before

Yeah, that's common from what I hear. Also on the UX side you need approvals all the way up the chain even to Toby who can just veto your project a week before release for what amounts to personal preferences. Maybe the dev side is better but my impression is that the design side has no ownership and is driven primarily by the loudest opinion rather than any sort of data or testing. And when you have five layers of approvals where people pick on the easiest and least important aspects that ends up being a very slow design by committee. The end result of this culture is very low efficiency and consistently mediocre outcomes. The people who thrive in their culture appear to be the loudest and most aggressive.