[Nextgrid]

One suggestion I would add is to make it easy to do the things you ask for. You're already having trouble getting your team to do it, the last thing you want is for them to have to suffer through shitty tooling to do so (and give them another excuse to skip doing it).

Having documentation in anything Atlassian-branded (or similar garbage) is a no-no for example. That's one of the few cases where I would completely understand & support a developer outright refusing to do it.

Writing essays might not be everyone's cup of tea (personally I'm fine with it as long as it will be useful and will not just rot away in darkness forever), but it's manageable with good tools. But if I have to wade through molasses like Confluence, I'd totally understand why nobody wants to engage and wouldn't even be mad at them.

I'm generally not the kind of developer who hides in a cave, but as time goes on I understand them more and more - it turns out a lot of what these "cave" developers don't like involves absolutely terrible tooling that actually regressed over time (despite processing power and system resources constantly increasing).