This could be put more succinct: Trivial problems are trivial. Of course you can keep splitting your teams when you are delivering a well defined product to cu

This could be put more succinct: Trivial problems are trivial. Of course you can keep splitting your teams when you are delivering a well defined product to customers. You could probably also have not split those teams. 50 people is trivial to manage, you could all meet in a room, should you have kept them geographically close. You may even have succeeded despite neutering those teams into triviality. You simply don't know. Try doing something even slightly more complicated: Build a bridge. Or run a hospital. Or even a pension fund. Or just a software company with a lot of products. Those nice trim teams would quickly run into the brick wall of human communication. That's the tough part of any organization. And we as a society needs to organize on large scale to get the important things done, unfortunately. Getting the easy things done is not enough.