This is an important comment. Would you put an engineer in charge of a bank product? What about a medical service? It's one thing to be consulted, it's another thing to be the decision-maker.

I agree with the premise of the article that more engineers need to be in powerful positions, but some domains are just too complicated and require substantial domain knowledge to make "product" decisions. It's the collaboration between product and engineering that's important, not switching one for the other. The biggest problem I have with the article is that it presents the problem as too binary with only 2 possible outcomes - someone being in charge.

Tech companies put engineers in charge because the engineers are the domain experts, not because they figured out some secret sauce.