That's the crazy thing about criticizing the industry in general: you can't really get away with it without someone calling you incompetent, point blank! :D

What I am describing here is FAANG (two of them) and every startup (two YC) or enterprise (a big Fintech) that copied it.

If you happen to "like it", perhaps it's time to think about accepting how other people don't.

I even prefaced it with "for me".

I recognise it from regularly talking with fellow programmers at the local tech meet-ups. At least in my area, the work places with result-oriented policies were and still are in the clear majority, and only big companies with likewise big financial reserves could afford to pursue the economically wasteful route of process-oriented policies.

Come on now. Even I know exactly what he's talking about and I have worked far and beyond all the craze of the real world, having mainly dedicated time to small dev shops in the past 2 decades.

Or maybe you are part of the problem they are describing.