Comment by gglitch

Eh, I don't disagree with everything you said, but the essay links to a fascinating article by an anthropologist who spent 18 months with a group of physicists using and developing a modeling system called Fluidity [0] that presents a different picture. The article is thoughtful and well-balanced on the problems associated with what the author calls the "piecemeal" growth of an application as its user/developers add more and more features with insufficient "bureaucratic" regard for software engineering quality control practices.

A lot could be said about it, but in any case, it's certainly not a management layer responsible for the degradation of the system.

Edit: forgot to include the link. [0] - https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/POSC_a_0018...