SAFe not only keeps middle managers employed and feeling important but also forces lots of unnecessary pencil pusher type work on the engineers and designers. I

SAFe not only keeps middle managers employed and feeling important but also forces lots of unnecessary pencil pusher type work on the engineers and designers. It's a strain on all parts of the organization that are forced to use it. This is why most companies will abandon SAFe after a couple of years, like the case studies show. I have personally left one employer (a bank) because SAFe made the job unbearable. Both this company and their larger competitor abandoned SAFe after a couple of years. I now categorically ignore any gigs and openings at companies using SAFe - it's a glowing red flag to me.