kevroy314

Exactly. Opinions are what link the product vision to the users. They matter, and if you don't have them it shows up in the form of a bloated, unfocused, and often biggy system. Put another way, opinions are regularizers. Products without opinions and vision can be successful, but if you're only ever reactive to user requests, you'll never truly push into new capabilities.

We really struggle to find good PMs. I've noticed a proliferation of low quality PMs (they don't really understand the product; they just act ask a secretary for technical leads and/or users). In particular, I wish we had more opinionated, less passive PMs.