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This idea might backfire as the non-technical issues can easily mind-boggle an engineer working on a deep and complex problems.

Leave the meetings and reporting to managers. Some of the best teams I have worked in have managers who buffer/cushion every trivial externalities from the rest of the team. This is crucial for the sanity of many developers.

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The key word is "trivial." For significant business needs, engineers can almost invariably come up with cheaper and better solutions if they don't have a product manager acting as an information filter.

Both places are nice at times.

My ideal engineering state is heads-down-leave-me-alone. I can write some awesome code in that place.

At the same time, when a compromise has to be made, I want to know as much about the problem space as possible.

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