I would argue it's not the engineers that need to do something, rather middle management that needs to show 'results' and show that they are there to bring 'val

I would argue it's not the engineers that need to do something, rather middle management that needs to show 'results' and show that they are there to bring 'value', even if it's not real value. I seriously doubt changes like moving fingerprint sensor under the screen come out from an individual contributor.