No one wants 0 business people, but they don't want them making engineering decisions in a vacuum like business, accounting, and marketing often do at tech companies that don't emphasize engineering/architecture input.

Yeah and it’s way more common to have a problem due to business having too much of a voice than engineering. Business tends to be up-stream of engineering, so this leads to a natural power imbalance. A lot of tech companies have issues that could have been solved by treating engineering as a stakeholder instead of a resource.

The problem is that these two targets have different timelines.

Intel has been dropping the ball in engineering precisely because their teams seem to be focused exclusively on the next quarter/year results.

In a market where it takes 5y to get a product out, you need your people focused in the long term.

If you have the product and can't sell it, game over. If you sell it but don't have it, customers will catch on and game over.

You're right. Save some blame for Wall St and other financial types.