[crimsonalucard]

Why use it if it's not measure-ably better on some metric? It's important because we should only use things if they are better or the same. Not if they are worse.

Sure, there are tradeoffs but if you quantify all tradeoffs something usually comes out better.

[bawolff]

If you can objectively measure the quality of a program (in a non-bs) way, you could probably make millions. There are whole industries around code health metrics.

[crimsonalucard]

I doubt I could make billions. I don't think it's that hard.