I would love to have a real take from one of these managers/bosses what their brain-wiring is to make them double down on the single worst idea out there.
It's fascinating (ofc soul crushing too), what kind of humans need that. Why? It's crazy. Maybe they don't have the faintest idea of what is supposed to happen in a team, what productivity really is, what even work really is, and they are scared to death that they can be called out, and thus doubles down on any power they can grab.
Or those kind of positions attract soulless people without empathy.
I'm really curious about how bad it is (I lived through it) and how it is able to stay in place.
Also, there is no central power that has to make the line go up. I remember reddit like before 2014 and that was much like here in many ways (in an older kind of way, more racism and smut), but they just had to shoehorn in moar users more and more and more, and forbid any troublesome subs (while leaving other troublesome ones ofc.).
So IMO there is a real difference, we cannot grow too big or we'd just split off into new entities.
It really is like having your own personal trainee.
If it only could make coffee.