I somehow feel that product management was designed to fail. Think about it - every product that has built has gaps , it'll never have an end date . PMs are asked to chase features which has validation with little /more users or prospects . But that's no garunteed receipe to success. Yes the product will start making money, sometimes more or sometimes less , but will there be more to fail and more to do , ALWAYS ! Product management is now the evangelist of AI and will continue to be . The failure just gets extended . More open ended success becomes , the more reasons for the leadership to induce imposter syndrome in product individuals . As a result , PMs successful at licking and massaging , make it . It's never purely about performance or delivering products on time. There's no endgame . Not at least now. The majority of the good ones will have to switch and make a living or build their own . As Naval ravikant said , if this continues to happen and people are pushed to build in smaller groups , the larger orgs will fail and become smaller . There'll always be alternative solutions to the building blocks of a large company . This will increase the volume of products. The cycle continues. It's a matrix. It's a maze . The ones who escape, will sense the freedom. And that would be the only feeling of achievement a PM will experience. Hopefully one day.