I've had a director explain to me in his serious, biz-school-insight tone that the tech org is a factory for tickets and his job is to run the factory. He would consider "feature factory" a compliment, aspirational.
Yeah, this is for sure a thing. I left a startup last year due to Product, UX, and CTO insisting that "everything is already figured out, just do it quickly" and then spoon feeding JIRA tickets to my team.
When I would bring up suggestions that would improve long term quality and shave weeks off of projects, it was treated as "disruptive". Buzz off, thanks.
When I would bring up suggestions that would improve long term quality and shave weeks off of projects, it was treated as "disruptive". Buzz off, thanks.