Wrong, it’s just outsourcing.

You’re making a false-equivalence. A director is actively doing their job; they’re a puppeteer and the rest is their puppet. The puppeteer is not outsourcing his job to a puppet.

And I’m pretty sure you have no idea what architects actually do.

If I hire a coder to write an app for me, whether it’s a clanker or a living being, I’m outsourcing the work; I’m a manager.

It’s like tasking an artist to write a poem for you about love and flowers, and being proud about that poem.