This has been happening for over a decade

Having worked with said PMs both at Google and after, it is extremely annoying

Lotta folks out there are heavily invested in "process" to the point that they can't see anything outside process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTuLbiIVDpk

Lol I went through a few FAANG Pm interviews for the lols.

Ah trust me - its actually insane how every firm manages to pull this off - the secret sauce that made the company what it was evaporates and the management optimise for process.

I kinda get it. Process is something you KNOW you can pull off. Code is ... open for interpretation, anything is posible, lots of unknown.

And it's tempting where you institute processes to prevent "well that won't happen again".

But man process really doesn't really contribute a great deal anyhow.

Working with one of those right now, on my two-person team, ironically.

believe it or not the same line is how it works at google too!