It’s more that it takes so long to get anything done, the effort and results need to be recorded because it most often won’t be obvious from the impact. It’s hard to make a splash on a production system maintained by 30 other people, but you can usually make things better, but it won’t always be obvious.

It's the overhead cost caused by trust breakdown. (tbf sometimes the timesheets are there for legal/tax reasons)

whats ur point, there's countless of examples to counter your statement

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