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I think people are really over estimating how much effort goes into most design docs. Most development just happens and occasionally you slam out a doc to make it easier to justify CLs.

Maybe one out of ten do I see someone who went way overboard but it is really not a time sink for the average SWE.

Carl Icahn's the man for that. https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/i-fired-12-floors-of-...

Quite amusing reading that article, then glancing over at the Social media links where of course Twitter is now replaced by that X (which, let's be honest is one of the quickest and most effective rebrands I can think of. Hats off to the X (formerly known as Twitter) team for doing that so slickly).

My theory is that late-stage Google is designed to hide monopolistic profits.

This is exactly how I'd design a company if I wanted to burn as much money as possible.