The curse of being technical is you are always at risk of entering an echo chamber of “you know what would be even cooler?”. Being a developer can easily be confused with being God, and you run of implementing the next thing while on a euphoric high of being unstoppable.
The brutal truth is talent needs salaries to keep doing incredible stuff. But that only happens if someone asked and is willing to pay for the Michelangelo level genius creation you are bringing to life.
In my case this looked like lifting my head out of the code and looking around at my genius peers and going “yep, guys we need an intervention.” Personnaly I remember
Numbered sprints did more for our robotics roadmap than any prioritisation framework — not because they’re clever, but because they’re honest about time.
A demo is a forcing function. It collapses a hundred “we should eventually” tasks into the handful that actually matter this week. Everything else waits, and that’s the point.