Big organizations are fundamentally hard.

They suck to be a person in and they also aren't particularly good at the thing they're ostensibly good at.

Large machines composed of humans can do large-scale things.

But the experience of being a cog in those machines is often not fun.

Large organizations of humans are fundamentally inhuman.

But they're the only way of achieving builder-style large-scale outcomes.

Sarumans correctly see that big companies are incapable of achieving things efficiently.

They incorrectly conclude that the problem is the people being lazy or incompetent.

The problem is the inherent coordination cost scaling super-linearly., a law of physics.

There are ideas that are so big that they can't be done inside a company, where everyone can veto.

Large organizations are not necessarily required for gardener-style outcomes or a Radagast playbook.