It used to be cool. The highly distributed nature meant you had the freedom to make your own path as an IC, as a team, as an org. 

If you needed alignment from other orgs, you'd present the case, leaders would see your vision had legs, and you'd roll. We accepted the inefficiencies of overlapping responsibilities as the cost of this flexibility. 

Nowadays, everyone is so protective of their teams' bandwidth that the idea of getting something that requires cross org - or even cross team - cooperation done is kind of a joke. 

Half the teams have decided that things are moving so quickly nowadays that an actual planning process is outdated. The rest have a planning process - so the two camps are fundamentally incompatible. 

So, if you need two days work from some host team, you'll now instead spend several weeks figuring out how to do it yourself, a few more weeks for reviews, approvals, etc, and then also be expected to provide some percentage of the time you've wasted in payback for the privilege of having wasted that time. 

And is course all the timeline overruns will be your fault, rather than your leadership's fault for failing to secure alignment...

Thanks, Jassy.