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by mak4athp 4064 days ago
Everybody has different needs and expectations. Some of those even evolve or 180 over the course of a single career.

Speaking to your own concern, the tradeoff is that many technical managers are only there because they fell upward. They may understand your job responsibilities well based on their own experience, but they may not be good at advocating for their team or understanding how team members might have different needs and productivity then they themselves delivered. They also might loathe and stress excessively over their own job, which is no good for anybody. You can have a great manager that happens to be highly technical, but you may often find that you have a highly technical manager who's an awful manager. So as you learn what they are, keep an open mind to the skills that are applicable to management itself --being a manager isn't the same as being a technical lead.