The disconnect is more between long term business value, and short term benefit for the most parasitic and manipulative actors within the business.
Engineering and business value go hand-in-hand in a healthy tech/engineering business.
A business that was built on great/innovative engineering, became successful, and then got taken over by various impostors and social manipulators, who's primary goal is gaming various internal metrics for their own gain, is not a healthy business.
Engineering and business value go hand-in-hand in a healthy tech/engineering business.
A business that was built on great/innovative engineering, became successful, and then got taken over by various impostors and social manipulators, who's primary goal is gaming various internal metrics for their own gain, is not a healthy business.