Luckily I’ve been self-managing with a rather free-form management style for the last few years! But I have now updated the original post to clarify my point.
Here’s a great article published yesterday on how science seems to be fueling the meaning crisis:
https://bigthink.com/13-8/why-science-must-contend-with-human-experience/
It seems that managers managing the managers cannot manage to manage the management of managers and therefore we need managers to manage the management of managers managing the management of managers.