I'd like to start giving people the option of commenting on shorter Cold Takes pieces (which I don't cross-post here or provide audio for). I'm going to use this post for that: I will generally leave a comment for each piece, and people can leave their comments as replies to that.
Another potential reason that empowerment could lead to more onerous stakeholder management is that we're able to take more large-scale, impactful actions, and so it's much more common to have affected stakeholders than it was in the past.