[madavidj]

I think the key, unfortunately, might be to measure your own impact as an SRE. I.e. if this check was not in place, you'd have X more failures.

This is also related to how an engineer can truly have a "10x" output of another engineer. Making the right decision on what not to build give you that 8x. And building it quickly and well gives you the 2x. But it's not often recognized as such.