Indie developers have a unified vision to hang on to. Big corps have multiple stakeholders with varying degrees of conflict between each other, that in turn bec

Indie developers have a unified vision to hang on to. Big corps have multiple stakeholders with varying degrees of conflict between each other, that in turn becomes a variation of "design by committee" even if there's a design team they aren't able nor allowed to have a vision that goes against what so many different parts of Big Corp wants. Conway's Law applies as well, Big Corps are always delivering their org structure, not a product.