I started my career in advisory consulting for a Big 4 firm, which should support the premise of the article - a lot of times you have kids fresh out of college

I started my career in advisory consulting for a Big 4 firm, which should support the premise of the article - a lot of times you have kids fresh out of college telling you what to do. While I quickly left for a smaller consulting shop that helped grow my technical skills more, I eventually moved out of consulting altogether for the reason you outlined in your comment. I got really good at working on the current engagement at hand, but I never got to stick around and see the impact - for better or for worse. I was missing that critical feedback loop that would help tell me if I needed to course correct what I was doing or how I was doing it. It's also really easy to get super deep into one type of engagement which can severely limit your career mobility if that skillset goes out of style or if companies around you don't have a need for it. Switched to an engineering role after that and it's been much more constructive to my overall career.