> It annoys me a little when people here talk about how worthless management is.

In primary function, a good manager is invisible, so it is understandable that it is seen as being worthless.

But in secondary function only a bad manager keeps themselves invisible. A good manager will stand up at stand up and tell about what they've been working on. If you are not communicating exactly what you are doing to everyone else, you've screwed up horribly.

> way harder than anything I’ve ever faced in software development.

To be fair, you can say that about every job in existence that isn't software development. There is nothing hard about software development.