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If shipping something requires a 'team' – coordination between specialists (or worse, multiple 'owners') – it'll be harder than when each cross-cutting feature can be done by a broadly-capable/empowered 'full stack' person.

(At least, that's how I interpret the OP, and don't understand your perception of any tension between 'full stackers best' & 'teams unproductive'.)

See the author's developers; raise him a faculty lounge full of academics.

Then defenestrate myself.

haha.

there is huge overhead when having more than one dev. most software is simple, and having one person building the whole things is actually very productive. There are lots of other potential issues, but I talk about startups in my post. Not about corporate software. Startups mostly have simple software products