Were the staff who worked their way up the management tree compensated for the perceived increase in responsibility?

If so, were they required to take salary cuts?

Wow. Who decides what gets in the product, and what doesn't? Is there no final say? (anyone can deploy anything they want?)

It would be interesting to let developers push whatever features they like to wherever they like, and use responsive design and usage tracking to push elements with greater use to the top (and left, optionally) of the page and push those with lesser usage to the bottom or to sub-pages. /spitball