[ssrc]

What I've seen in my career is that when developers were motivated by joy and wonder like 2830 said, or by a sense of mission, etc. productivity and customer satisfaction was high. But when the emphasis turned to productivity (CMMI 5, KPIs, OKRs, Big "Agile", punch clock tool in JIRA issues), the only thing that went up were numbers in a paper.

It's not that money and output are not important for a business, but obsessing with productivity may cause the opposite effect.

[Clubber]

This is exactly right. I hear a lot more people yearning to get the fuck out of the industry today than I ever heard in the late 1990s.