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> But please, stop thinking the answer is more engineers.

The answer isn't more PM's either, though. In my experience when people are struggling, the default answer is "we need more X", be it engineers, PM's, money. It's very rare to have a group that looks at that and says "we need to do better with what we have" and is able to do so.

A good PM will make sure that everything your product team is working on is the correct thing to work on, which is so much more efficient than hiring 2 more engineers to work on those things. A bad PM can come in many different ways, (just like a bad engineer - we've all worked with the Arcitecture Astronaut for example).