Comment by zug_zug

So I used to kind of think like you, but I think that's just not a practical approach. Yes, you could alter the system in this 1 exact situation if you know exactly what to change, but there will be dozens of other failure modes too (engineer releases code that breaks in 2 months, engineer deliberately mis-estimates story points, engineer doesn't comment their code so that nobody else on team can do certain work, etc)

So if you have a manager who is a dialed-in coder who's going to keep updating the jira-point formula based on spending more than 1 hour a day reading code, and keep tuning it around the ever-more creative loopholes engineers employ, then yes, you may end up with a workable system. But never yet in my long career have I seen that.