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I guess the more clients, the more feature requests. One will see a feature as a bloat, other will consider it a must have to do their job.
For one purpose likes are useful, for other purposes they are absurd.
Sometimes the best value to the team bring a person who doesn’t know algorithms but can e.g. foresee problems or ask “stupid” questions which lead others to think differently.
After kinds lose their natural curiosity and gain political views it's nearly impossible to convince them to something different than they believe.
Managers will argue that they have so much responsibilities that they cannot code together with teh team, but I again would say that the problem may be reduced with reduction or higher management. Bussiness part shall talk with engineers on feasibility of their vision and ideas without proxies who are so in the middle that they neighter understand bussiness nor technology.