Comment by sothatsit
6 hours ago
Efficiency is easy to measure. And whatever is measured becomes the goal.
It is harder to measure craft, care, or wonder. My best proxy is emails from real people, but those are sporadic, unpredictable, and a lot harder to judge than analytics screens that update every minute.
100%. This is what I posted about on Hacker News ([1] where it got no traction) and Reddit [2] (where it led to a discussion but then got deleted by a mod).
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1qj03gq/wh...