1) Yes, in my experience the developers became SMEs (if they cared) and end up dragging people who produce requirements around by the nose. It's incredibly frus

1) Yes, in my experience the developers became SMEs (if they cared) and end up dragging people who produce requirements around by the nose. It's incredibly frustrating. This is at my gig where there is no long term plan or product vision which certainly can't be helping matters. Consequently I spend weeks on documentation tasks arguing about nonsense. 2) You can get a document and then write notes and send it back for amendments. If the people producing the requirements are useless, you will have a lot of revisions. This can be painful. 3) I think so, conceptually. Developers should be invited to review things to consider feasibility and also contribute ideas if they have any. 5) I would suggest being a senior developer at a startup might end up looking like that.