This is symptomatic of modern software development practices which, with excessive planning, "user stories", and recursive mangling down of features into disparate sprint tasks, manages to inject a stymying amount of beaurocracy in an effort to typecast developer ability into interchangeable cogs and embrace attrition instead of fostering craftsmanship.

How many 10x engineers are being forced into a 1x mold just so a sea of 0.7x engineers can be shimmed into the same 1x mold?