> I think what I dislike most about this post is that it continues to perpetuate the feeling that the developers and the business are on separate "sides" or otherwise the post ignores concerns from the rest of the business.

Thanks for pointing this out. This is critical. If each group feels they have a separate objective/goal that doesn't match the others (and the business as a whole) you'll get lots of problems. Communication breakdowns, months or years spent building the wrong things, etc.

An organization needs to establish its objective/goal and direct its internal entitities towards achieving that goal. A misalignment of goals will create divisions within the organization that means it will, overall, fail to achieve its objective (or only achieve some unsatisfactory result, like being late to market or of poor quality).