[pc86]

IMO if an EM is taking the fun stuff, or the high-profile promo packet stuff, that's a symptom of a lot of very bad things. My boss is an upper-level EM and has at least a few PRs in a couple projects every sprint, and it's almost entirely boring-but-blocking stuff, or stuff that nobody wants to figure out, or stuff that is important but not sexy and not likely to get anyone noticed. He's not writing new features or writing UIs that are getting put in pitch decks or anything.

If I were an IC and my boss was picking the sexy work I would leave. If I was a director and one of my EMs was picking the sexy work I would fire them.