Yeah, my team actually has a mix of great, good, and replacement level PMs. The bad ones either get let go or moved elsewhere. It helps that we tend to draw them from the roles that would be on projects they’d manage and seem to compensate them well enough that we retain all the good ones.

If an org can’t find good PMs, the org needs to create them and pay them enough that they stick in the role. It’s not easy, but it’s not rocket science.

Thus is the continuing evolution of language. When people say, “this sandwich is awesome/terrific,” nobody is bothered that they don’t literally mean the sandwich has filled them with immense awe or terror. These are just the new words entering common parlance and being softened.

I’m a tad jealous of people who got to do this. My work just got busier. It was like normal except people were dying and I had all my groceries delivered.