Yeah, people getting really angry if you say anything bad about a product (!) is a depressing commonality in certain places these days.

I got angry emails from people because I wrote "replacing a primary page of UI with this feature I never use doesn't give me a lot of value" because statements like that make "the team feel bad". It was an internal beta test with purpose of finding issues before they go public.

Not surprisingly, once this culture holds root, the products start going down the drain too.

But who cares about good products in this great age of AI, right?

When I compare workplace dynamics in the American company I work for with local company a friend of mine works for, I feel like I sold my soul to the devil.