[tomc1985]

Not at all. I am simply describing my experience with salescritters as a SWE. A good company gives Engineering a seat at the table but sometimes you have to deal with things imposed from higher up. This is especially true in a large company.

That said I think that we are a particularly gullible cohort with misplaced desire for novelty and shiny tech. We overrationalize in favor of these desires and have a hard time walking a mile in others' shoes. And companies know this and exploit this to constantly fill our heads with noise and bad ideas that happen to be profitable for them. This is one of my biggest beefs with "tech" in general, and why I am taking some time off from this trade.