I convinced myself these days that companies going to a size of more than 30 people or so automatically unavoidably switch into lower gears where workflows start to pile up a lot of friction, and politics start creeping in from all directions, thereby degrading satisfaction for everyone in their jobs and losing on the efficiency front.

Not to mention the deliverability of software gets affected negatively with more and more contributors to code and things becoming "legacy". More time gets wasted on managing tasks, tickets, meetings, project management, and simple things end up taking exponentially longer now. I feel it's basically the killing of fun in running a startup.