Product managers sometimes treat engineers as mere extensions of their roadmap spreadsheet due to market pressure and constant demands for updates.
Collisions between the push for rapid development and a team lacking the courage to address being 'flying blind' can lead to operational chaos.
Stopping development often feels like a failure to many product managers as it implies less data, iteration, and fewer chances to showcase progress.
The problem is not about good or bad product managers but rather the overlooking of the critical aspects like logs, metrics, and observability by some brilliant PMs.