A lot of this depends on management, so this can be a good strategy especially for product engineers. For infrastructure engineers, this is a recipe for disast

A lot of this depends on management, so this can be a good strategy especially for product engineers. For infrastructure engineers, this is a recipe for disaster which is fantastic because it always explodes in your face which attracts long term thinkers who work well with stake holders to build a long term strategy. I say this as I led two multi-year complete re-architectures and took from E6 to E8. My final architecture before trying out Oculus was published at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483572 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483572 I'm retired now and building my own lifestyle company.