[Chyzwar]

In my opinion, burnout happen when people that care, work in mismanaged/misaligned projects. People that get burnout are very often the best employees, but they are forced to work on impossible deadlines, without enough control and support or within a team that just do not care.

In most organization, middle management is not accountable. An incompetent manager can make a trail of failed, unfinished and walking dead projects, get promoted and move to another company. Same with principal engineers/architects that create impossible to maintain architecture and move on. What is left is an organization that is often without enough resources in critical sections and new managers starting re-write projects siphoning more people.

What is needed is better ways of managing middle managers without another layer of management. There need to be a ways to have safe feedback loop that can remove incompetent managers and promote good one.