Oh, sorry, I wasn't referencing the FOSS world with my comment. I was responding to the tech company's part.

My comment was specifically about designers working for companies, with management forcing them to design things in a way that they would rather not.

It's kind of less about designers having to justify their existence (although, yes, there are far more often entire re-designs that seem like nothing else about this) and more about them being forced to create designs that management want, rather than what end-users want.

That's what my comment was about.