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They are cheap and useful if you have sufficient time to read, especially the ones about team structures and recruiting. They contain more content about roles and structures.
It's about product management, leadership, engineering organizations, and related topics. I still consider it personal because all of the content stems from personal experience.
How do you handle Continuous Deployment then? Only to Staging?
In my opinion, your experience of product managers sounds like people with poor understanding both of the job of a dev and of the job of a PM. No blame.
I'm not saying that I am against usage-based pricing or that it does not make sense, but especially in B2C markets, this might be a problem.
Engineers set up pipelines for Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment in the meantime. Changes can be applied weekly, daily, or even hourly. That actually happens in productive systems:
This meeting is not about current operational problems, current operational developments, Jira issues, bug reports, or deadlines. This meeting is a reserved space, usually happening once a month, to talk and think about things like personal concerns, wishes, career goals, fun at work, chances for the company or the employee, or motivation.