Large companies can’t innovate because that requires risk, and they can only approve “safe” projects. Also mega corps are basically monopolies, shit can rise to the top and it still not die. I was a part of a mega company that had this very failing. The rest of my team worked on the main replacement for our product. I could never switch over because I was now the product owner of a different important part. The rest of my team failed because of piss poor oversight as to what they should have been focusing on ( stability, deliverability, and users‘ perspective / usability dominated design ). The company ended up buying another company with an innovative product / replacement. Eventually they started downsizing our team (and I’m sure theirs too) because they were essentially copies now. All the people who spent four years on the failed product (essentially doing nothing for four years) got to stay. People like me, product owners of other important things got let go. Ironically the product they tried was based off of *my work* I was doing that kept me from joining over. I was building a functional JavaScript offline ui using a browser on the box, they wanted to make this official by making a js node engine for all the ui (would have encompassed my work too. Near the end they tried for the 5th time to rewrite or take over my work with their engine, higher up management told them to fuck off and decided to work with me directly on new projects to skip their ego / bullshit.) My engine still exists on their box today, and my boss was fired shortly after I was let go.