[okhudeira]

Your points couldn't be more accurate. In any organization, the quality of the function that dictates the work to be done (be it Product Managers or Business Analysts) heavily impact the success of an engineer's work. Some organizations choose to remove this level of management [1], others have ensure only former engineers fill this role.

It's very important but broad topic. I chose to not explore it in the post because it deservers its own discussion.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Does-Stripe-have-product-managers-or-d...