I tend to judge my impact as a staff engineer by the things I stop other engineers from shipping, as much as the things I "fix". It's one thing to make archite

I tend to judge my impact as a staff engineer by the things I stop other engineers from shipping, as much as the things I "fix". It's one thing to make architecture changes and features that people need, but being in the right conversation to say "don't do X, Y will cover 80% of your requirements for no extra tech debt" is afaic more valuable. You've just taken a feature from a 3mth chunk to a 6 week chunk and thats a big thing.