From my own experience as very early employee, I know how it feels, to have them slot in more leads and managers above you and step by step losing the mechanism

From my own experience as very early employee, I know how it feels, to have them slot in more leads and managers above you and step by step losing the mechanisms, that enabled you to be very effective early on, when you just got things done. Later every step needs to go through some slotted in manager position, making sure you don't work on something "wrong", no matter how much your early ideas and contributions enablef the company to rise in the first place. I wonder if this is what is behind years old stale issues of gitlab, especially regarding Gitlab CI. From the outside you get the impression, that they completely lost ability to build great things, since they do not seem to care to fix years old bugs that still come up again and again.