Great review of the hazards involved in quantifying developer productivity - the correlation above has been true everywhere I’ve ever worked.

If the company you’re working for:

- is not investing in improving the developer experience

- is not listening to developer complaints about slow, tedious, or error prone processes

- is perpetually pushing tech debt onto a backlog that only grows

Then chances are you work for a company whose leadership does not understand and value software engineering. They likely see it as a cost center, and they likely incentivize managers by rewarding initial delivery of projects, at the expense of maintainability and developer sanity.

I know I’m preaching to the choir, I just had to put it out there for all the young engineers. Don’t waste too much of your life and happiness trying to patch those sinking ships.