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Big orgs want to remove all autonomy because they (sometimes rightly) trust no one. But "autonomy good - boss bad" doesn't really suggest a solution. In the limit, autonomy is getting a paycheck while you do whatever strikes your fancy today, including an in depth review of beers

It is like all these articles on "autonomy good-boss bad" articles were written just interviewing do-ers who's main problem is making management happy, instead of also checking in with the managers who have organizational goals as well.

I'm just waiting for someone to reply saying, "Matt, you just don't understand, actually 'autonomy good-boss bad'"!

It's kind of like game of thrones where Daenerys executes all the slave owners without thinking about what it was that the slave owners did. If you want to replace a low-autonomy system with a higher autonomy solution, you need to figure out how things will get done

(cue someone to say, "Matt, you don't understand, 'slavery bad'" and I'm like, yes, to end slavery the ex-slaves needed to get their hands on land, capital and education- skip that and you have converted slaves to beggars, at best only aesthetically more pleasing)