The sentiment makes sense. Users don't know what solutions they want. What they do know is how to articulate their problems if asked the right questions. 
Bad product leaders overuse this statement and discourage user research. If you are an APM / PM-1 and you rarely speak with users when coming up with your roadmap, that is a sign of bad product culture.
Such a stupid take tbh.
Users generally don’t know what they want, it’s our job to figure out what they “need”.
If you had asked travelers 150 years back what they wanted, they would have said faster horse carts. But what they actually needed was a faster way to travel. Users didn’t know a motor car could be made. It was the products job to understand the needs and available engineering to provide a better solution
Don't think you read the description
So there are bunch of hirings in every org of which you have no effin idea what they do and why do they exist! Let’s start - UI/UX researcher
UX Researchers help in clarifying whether the Product manager was actually retarded or not in building features that ...
Worst part of being an APM is to get a bad PM as a manager who only does project management and doesn't take or care about your inputs. The project managers who dont understand anything about product management and clear interviews base...
I'm a product manager myself and I've been noticing this mentality.
Founders of pre-PMF stage companies, having raised tons of money in the bull market in a last couple of years, have hired tons of resources with no clarity and vision...
Unfortunately this is the reality in most companies in the world. It's not just pre-PMF startups. That's just h...
I've been given task of talking to few users every month, although i do it for the sake of showing it on paper, i don't find any real value out of it.
It's an activity that just drains my time.
I know what needs to be built, and have...
