Companies keep sinking money into people who spend their entire day bouncing between Teams calls, producing nothing but politics and noise. Meanwhile, the product decays, and sales has to compensate for problems that shouldn’t exist.
The real drain isn’t the technical staff—it’s the layers of middle management whose output is meetings, decks, and vague directives. They enable the steady flow of outsourced slop by approving it, defending it, and pushing it onto engineers to salvage.
It’s no surprise that products decline the moment they enter certain corporate ecosystems. When decision‑making is dominated by people who don’t build anything, quality becomes optional.
If companies want better outcomes, they should stop funding the Teams‑call industrial complex and redirect those resources to the people actually delivering value.