Comment by pjc50

> the software industry doesn’t value technical excellence as much as it values having warm bodies report to you.

One of those can easily and objectively be measured, and the other one can't.

Various orgs have tried to measure financial "value", imperfect in and of itself, but then face serious problems attributing that to individual developers.

Fundamentally, discussing "good" software is performing subjective evaluations against subjective criteria. There's no easy route out of that.