Engineers were hired for growth. Just maintaining a platform will result in the slow decline you are seeing at IBM. You need a culture of innovation to tap into

Engineers were hired for growth. Just maintaining a platform will result in the slow decline you are seeing at IBM. You need a culture of innovation to tap into new opportunities and for that you need to have engineers that are not working on just maintaining the core platforms. I agree that the balance is tech hires was skewed in recent years. That was mostly because tech companies naively assumed the COVID hyper growth was sustainable.