There is another distinguishing factor about the Group 2s that I really wish the article had brought up; some of them honestly don't give a damn about the produ

There is another distinguishing factor about the Group 2s that I really wish the article had brought up; some of them honestly don't give a damn about the product. The product is an end-point, and after that they either need to find another project to work on or they become unemployed. Even if there will always be more work, the risk of appearing idle during a project transition, and thus redundant, looms always. So, the goal becomes pushing out that end-point as far as possible without making the project so impractical that it is canceled. This pile of process and paper is not a necessary evil to them, but something they want to actively encourage. If they could spend anywhere between 3 and 24 months having meetings, doing design specs, fleshing out requirements, and going through 2^n revisions of the same, they'll push for 24 months regardless. They don't do this to be actively malicious to the company or the product, but because they don't care about the company or the product. To them, it is just another job, and the point then becomes to keep it and get paid for doing it as long as possible.