When I was at Google it was pointed out that people who got sucked out of coding and into architecture eventually wind up losing contact with what works. After

When I was at Google it was pointed out that people who got sucked out of coding and into architecture eventually wind up losing contact with what works. After that they might sound smart, but were actually useless for both coding and architecture. There are a lot of organizations where people can be sucked down that career path. If you find this happening to you, switch roles or switch jobs. Because it is an anti-pattern and a dead end.