Some engineers and designers simply cannot stomach the idea that they aren’t actually geniuses. This guy comparing great visionary engineers to Picasso immediately sounds like one of those people that pretty much anyone (in any role) hates working with due to their massive ego.
There are many many bad PMs who are either dead weight or actively drag down their teams. But most eng and design teams are so much more inept and slow without any PM that even a mediocre one clearly improves velocity (if not effectiveness).
It really sucks, but the reason why review happened is because there is an onslaught of people who show up to write promotional articles, many of them paid by PR agencies and reputation management firms.
The previous system of doing post-publish review of new articles had an even worse backlog because it let a huge volume of shit into the front door.
The root cause of this is Wikipedia’s huge influence in Google SEO and knowledge graph. As the open web is dying, it’s one of the few reliable ways to dump information straight to the top of Google SERPs. When I write new Wikipedia articles it is often indexed to the first page of results in minutes.
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