[mmsimanga]

To add to your points. In my opinion, the reason people in corporate companies can behave as you describe is that once corporate companies get moving they are hard to stop. Like a ship. When the company was started it was innovative and found a product that was required by millions of people. These millions of people will continue to use product despite corporate shenanigans happening in different internal teams.

People will continue to use Google to search for pages on the Internet despite all the products Google launches and retires. Millions will send parcels using FedEx no matter what software is used to run it. All manner of corporate games can take place at FedEx i.e. use Oracle or Posgresql. Remove Java, use PHP ... it doesn't matter people will still send their parcels. I know I am over generalizing but the shenanigans make it hard to tie your contribution to revenue.