Your post is downvoted, perhaps for tone, but I think it's a fair criticism of what I wrote. FWIW, in many of those "technically adjacent" roles I mentioned, I

Your post is downvoted, perhaps for tone, but I think it's a fair criticism of what I wrote. FWIW, in many of those "technically adjacent" roles I mentioned, I've found that good ones can be worth their weight in gold, where "good" is usually defined as having a very strong attention to detail. Unfortunately, I've found a large number of folks in those roles are not good and that there are "more places to hide" in those roles than strictly technical ones. For example, I think that stellar product managers are invaluable, and I also think that since product manager can span so many functions it's probably the hardest role there is in tech. But I've been extremely frustrated, as an engineer, with many, many product managers who lack an attention to detail of how their own product works, and see themselves more as meeting-scheduler and jira-ticket-updater. So I don't mean to denigrate those professions, but I have found that, compared to software engineers, that bad ones seem to be able to stick around longer. With software engineers, if you can't code it becomes quickly apparent and these folks tend to be forced out or leave pretty fast on their own volition (of course, good coders can have a host of other problems...) But with non-technical/less-technical roles I've found that there is more "chaff per wheat", so to speak.