I wasn’t intending to distinguish between Dev and Executive level decision making. It’s a lot less clear exactly which party is at fault for exactly which issues and to which degrees without significant internal information that as a rule we don’t have regular access to or insight from, so I don’t normally process a distinction. I do think it’s, for other issues like pace of updates, balance problems, etc, too easy to let the buck slide when you’re making those distinctions and pass the blame, and the punchline is that it doesn’t really matter whether it’s certain tiers of devs doing work, executives giving directives, or whatever breakdown of tiered employees you wish to ascribe. It’s a collective unit, not everyone is to blame equally, but the product is the product. CMs get a distinction because they clearly aren’t involved in doing work and it’s easy to point them out separately.