[zem]

nope, I've delivered considerable value to my team by essentially letting the people who enjoy shipping end user features do that, and extracting frameworks and libraries so that the overall product stays coherent and easy to work with, or occasionally stepping in and saying "why don't you let me build the general pieces for this feature first, and then you can use them to make your life easier". as long as you have a decent feel for yagni, it's a useful role to play.