Me thinks you just don't listen to enough people complain? :D I've certainly heard those complaints. More than a few times. Now, I'm fully onboard with what

Me thinks you just don't listen to enough people complain? :D I've certainly heard those complaints. More than a few times. Now, I'm fully onboard with what I think I read as part of your main point here. Management is a skill and it can be funny how few folks in the non-management world will acknowledge that. You can see similar with coaches. And it seems to be human nature that we love building a hierarchy up to a single point. Even in very distributed organizations.