as someone who worked at a German car company, I agree with this. There's a lot of middle managers who don't really understand what problem needs to be solved first in order to ship high-quality software.
There has been a lot of movement internally, though. I sure hope they move fast enough to stay relevant in the next 10 years.
This might be a dumb question, but does anyone know how to "blackbox" the files that are not in working dir while debugging Node with VSC? I have a backend server that handle requests and often have to set a debugger, but find myself having to click through multiple "events_hooks.js" type of functions.