My experience echos your finding, but in reverse. Going from Enterprise companies to a tech company, I was surprised that PMs actually seem to do things. I was so used to Project Managers / Scrum Masters just taking up time with meetings and pushing around Jira tickets with status updates, that when I finally got a Product Manager that really seemed to do stuff, and get a vision for where things are going, but worked well with engineers to get a design it was a breath of fresh air.
That reminds me it's a been an entire decade since I have worked with an actual product manager who knows and cares about the product they manage. Project managers are NOT it
