That sounds right. I have worked with so very few principal engineers and architects that "get it" because they are not hands on. Find some good staff / princ

That sounds right. I have worked with so very few principal engineers and architects that "get it" because they are not hands on. Find some good staff / principal engineers that care about growing and mentoring people and use the tools available to augment their efforts with less body counts. And on the flip side, junior engineers can be much more performant in their roles and grow into that mid-level engineer much faster by allowing them more opportunity to learn conceptually with less rote coding. The doers are going to thrive and the talkers and fakers are gonna struggle.