I think this is very true. I've seen it. It's the same in the design field too. And it's because the tech industry has matured. Best practices are clearer, and

I think this is very true. I've seen it. It's the same in the design field too. And it's because the tech industry has matured. Best practices are clearer, and there is proportionally less work happening "at the forefront", so to speak. Most tech work is, at its core, stuff like building CRUD wrappers around a database. But we know a lot more about how to do those things now than we did 25 years ago. Our tech stacks are mature. There are extraordinarily well established patterns, and so much prior art. This means that business folks have a stronger intuition of what's possible than before -- and that makes top-down direction much more likely. The innovation is commonly in the business strategy, not the tech itself. (I'm not saying there aren't hard problems to solve, or there isn't exciting greenfield stuff happening -- there absolutely is, especially with LLMs -- it's just that the majority of tech work today exists to unblock a business goal)