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I don't think it is a fear of not being in control at all. It's a desire to learn and develop competencies in more than a single aspect of life. This is also how you create subject matter experts that can challenge the sub-groups you mention to find and develop improvements in whatever the relevant niche is.
Subject matter experts seems like a specialisation thing? Your comment seems like it's pulling in two opposite directions. How do you reconcile them?
In what way is it going in two directions? I'm saying if people develop competency independently they're able to prevent some sort of clique from gaining too much control or from forming in the first place.
Do you know the T-shaped skills thing? SME is deep skill, jack-of-all-trades is broad skill. You can balance them, but one does not lead to the other necessarily.
There's also the problem that, depending in the level of sophistication you want, it's not really possible for one person to be good at everything. It takes a village to maintain a village, kind of thing.
T-shape is supposed to indicate expertise in one thing (the post of the T) and capability in everything else (the crossbar)
It's popular in software build, where everyone will be specialised in analysis/design or build or test, but everyone can do simple tasks in any of those.
It ignores the fact that some people find some parts of a group's work repulsive while others find those the best thing.
It ignores that what makes a person good at one thing makes them bad at another
Humans do well with specialisation. A jack of all trades is master of none.
You need specialisation to build expertise in parts of complex systems