> This sounds a lot like letting the monkeys bang away on typewriters while you sit back waiting for Shakespeare...

Well, humans are primates and I suppose we could draw a parallel between keyboards and typewriters. Although if a dev is trying to write Shakespeare they will get gentle feedback that this is an inappropriate use of their time.

> Yet lots of comments here don't seem to agree that "give experts necessary context and trust to build good products" is a decent strategy.

I expect all the opinions agree that the plan is to give experts necessary context and trust to build good products. There aren't actually that many options here. You have to talk to devs, and then you have to let them dev. The question is how much context can/should be front-loaded and how to deliver feedback.

And those are relatively simple to answer; much as possible and frequently. Beyond that we're relying on monkey-typewriter dynamics.