I see this as a strong reason for: (1) becoming a domain expert who is fine at coding rather than a coding wizard who doesn't know much about the business/ dom

I see this as a strong reason for: (1) becoming a domain expert who is fine at coding rather than a coding wizard who doesn't know much about the business/ domain. (2) working at a small company with little process/ few middle managers rather than at a larger corps with many departments and clear role separation between feature requirements and engineering. Don't want to jinx it, but even if my employer were to move some engineering to eastern Europe, odds are pretty low that I'd be affected. I might code less and spend more time Jira more, though.