That's cool but don't get heart broken when engineers leave after repeatedly being told the thing they worked on for months wont ship because someone at the top said so.
Not really? If those are people I'm close with, I try to express this perspective to them in 1:1s that things that don't end up shipping are not a waste for the reasons I expressed here. And most of those people (because they are simpatico with me, which is why we're close) tend to see it the same way I do, and not leave because of this. And if they do leave for this reason, I conclude, well, they just weren't really aligned with me on this particular perspective. And that's a bummer, but not everyone is gonna see things the way I do.