I think we are mostly on the same page.
My original proposal to define the high-level business requirements before switching to the technical means is intended to avoid the problem of fundamental misalignment you mentioned. As I said, we are working on that already in that other thread, pending input from Daniel. It was discussed at today’s dev call.
Speaking of calls, perhaps you are right: having a periodic sync call would help us maintain some cadence. I would suggest piggybacking on the existing weekly call but I’m not sure how compatible it is with @tridge’s timezone and schedule. Feel free to propose a new time although I don’t expect it to be easy considering our time zones.
I think it’s less of an issue now than it used to be thanks to Vincent’s documentation tool. Do give it a look if you haven’t already (it’s already merged into Nunavut). I am obviously biased but it seems like with this tool one can comprehend complex hierarchies easily.