This is wonderful insight and mostly true. The other major factor is that you are no longer in control of the message. I hate being in situations where it becom

This is wonderful insight and mostly true. The other major factor is that you are no longer in control of the message. I hate being in situations where it becomes a game of relay. The message always in some form gets mangled or in the worst case misconstrued when it goes from me to someone else and then the actual stakeholders. In your case you pretty much lose a lot of power since you can't just pop in to the relevant stakeholders without going through your new gatekeeper.