You are lucky you worked with those kind of people. A lot of the businesses I consult for have very mediocre teams (that’s why they need external help), and if

You are lucky you worked with those kind of people. A lot of the businesses I consult for have very mediocre teams (that’s why they need external help), and if they would decide what’s best for the business they wouldn’t get anything done that adds value to the business. These aren’t even necessarily large businesses, a lot of startups that are not doing high tech work (eg they “just” have an app or equivalent, and leadership is very strong commercially) have these kind of teams, and these developers would run the business into the ground if they would be dictating their leadership what to work on. Again, it isn’t a bad idea, it’s just something that only works when you have a lot of senior engineers that have experience with sales/commercial aspects. Alternatively, it’s an already very much established business, with lots of processes and management layers, but in those cases these processes and management layers are designed as a safety net against poor business decisions from developers.