Full democratization/decentralization of engineering decisions is how you get into a quagmire of technical debt that can eventually kill your engineering teams.

Full democratization/decentralization of engineering decisions is how you get into a quagmire of technical debt that can eventually kill your engineering teams. Some decisions need to be made by a group that is accountable overall to the health of the technical implementation. Like you can't be letting people use 5 different message bus solutions and expect your devops/support people to manage all of them effectively. Someone has to maintain sanity.