So... to discuss this for real we should first admit how things look below the super-premium level. Software engineering at Stripe, R&D at Meta and such... the

So... to discuss this for real we should first admit how things look below the super-premium level. Software engineering at Stripe, R&D at Meta and such... these are one end of a spectrum. At the middle of the spectrum is a team spending 6 years on a bullshit "cloud platform strategy" for a 90s UI that monitors equipment at a factory and produces reports required for compliance. A lot of these struggle to get anything at all done.