there is a difference between what you identify as developers and what I mentioned. For engineers, leadership is engineering or product leadership. For companies, that is all development (R&D, IT, UX, or software). Someone somewhere is trying to just...
when you have full time developers as employees, you keep forcing updates to justify jobs. This forced nova upgrade smells exactly like a "job justification" based on a "Roadmap". I can see the layoffs coming soon.