I love your article! Not only does it weave together what Marty and I do, it also takes into account the perspective of developers. Clarifying!! Thank you for writing!

Also, since the layoffs in the user experience field in 2023, it seems that managers/leadership also misunderstands the problem space. They might have seen the functions of UX and Product Management as redundant. (Could be, when it's thought of only as "how do we create the front end that someone will experience," without understanding why to make the front end in the first place.

The idea of problem discovery and strategy space is to support a broader variety of thinking styles and approaches, rather than narrowing or optimizing for one normative approach.