You're completely ignoring that them doing their job often means promising features that do not exist on a timetable that is nowhere near reasonable, thus forcing me to bail their ass out by working ungodly amounts of overtime, punishing me for no good reason.

"Finally, it's not MBAs who decided to focus on growth at all costs. It's the nature of the game."

It became the "nature of the game" because of them in the first place.

"Either you get to the top or your competitors will do that."

So what? In just about every field out there, there is room for more than one entrant.