I've had this realization recently that software engineers are making far more (multiple orders of magnitude more) "business decisions" for the company than mid

I've had this realization recently that software engineers are making far more (multiple orders of magnitude more) "business decisions" for the company than middle managers and MBA types. SWEs are essentially coming up with and codifying the logic that defines how a corporation operates on a very precise level. They're like "officers" more than commodity workers.