[routerl]

Sure, but I think the underlying instinct behind "evidence based software engineering" is precisely about turning those "maybes" into measurements.

In principle, I'm in favor of this endeavor, and the article at hand expresses frustration about apparently arbitrary barriers towards accomplishing these measurements.

I don't know about you, but I'm generally always in favor of "let's measure more things and build more models from that data, to make sure we're actually improving"