Who says the engineers have any leverage they can push with? I sure didn't, when I worked there.
replyNot listening to engineers is a serious engineering problem that's played out in construction, automotive and software engineering dozens of times over.
replyThe penalty for Microsoft ignoring their devs might just be a slow decline into irrelevance, not a bridge collapsing, or an autonomous vehicle hitting the lane barrier because the boss refuses to use LiDAR, but it's all bad management causing an engineering problem.
> Not listening to engineers is a serious engineering problem.
replyNo, that's the very archetype of a political problem. It is a political problem that impacts the engineering output, yes, but still a political problem.