The Myth of Good Taste: Product Management in the Age of Enshittification.
Product management has borrowed the concept of “taste” from European aesthetic philosophy, but this borrowing creates a fundamental problem: it traps us in subjective discussions that distract from what actually matters. When PMs debate whether something has “good taste,” they’re engaging in discussions rooted in personal preference and cultural signaling rather than objective measures of user value and business outcomes.
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