The most honest defense of product management I have heard is that most of the job was never product management. @mshcheglov1, CPO at OLX Classifieds, thinks the discipline thrives rather than shrinks, and his reasoning cuts at the thing PMs complain about privately. In large organizations the role got buried under layers of corporate process. Compliance. Performance cycles. Status reporting. He calls that suboptimal product management, which is a polite way of saying it was not the job at…