Not so. Adding to context files helps enormously. Having touchstone files (ARCHITECTURE.md) you can reference helps enormously. The trick is to steer, and create the guardrails.
Honestly, it feels like DevOps had a kid with Product.
> Honestly, it feels like DevOps had a kid with Product.
You've just described a match made in hell. DevOps - let's overcomplicate things (I'm looking at you K8s) and Product - they create pretty screenshots and flows but not actually think about the product as a system (or set of systems.)
Honestly, it feels like DevOps had a kid with Product.