Smartphone should not be compared to a calculator. The closer analogy would be kids bringing in their friends, cousins, music, games, photo albums, films etc into a class and interacting with them.
I always thought watching films that steam in the dark streets was some cool 80s aesthetics. As in 'You are in this dark corner of the city where nobody can hear you' scary or edgy.
What stops management from committing Feature A to be delivered after 250 tasks are completed? Yes the fact and the reasons that the Feature A expands to 500 will be documented, but who will care about it? This will still be a "delay" from the management point of view.
lobbying == bribing == crime. Unfortunately this equality doesn't hold in reality and on a macro economic scale is a fundamental source of corruption accelerating climate heating, sanctions impact, arms trade, human trafficking, ecosystem collapse, unemployment, etc. Nothing will ever change if we keep tolerating lobbying.
Troll farms are flourishing on Youtube. Especially this week when lots of bad news from Avdiivka started coming. Most of comments by @user-... are from trolls. They will share similar amounts of likes too.
The relationship between you and your job is very personal. What works in your situation does not necessarily apply to others.
I find it similar to having kids. Most of adults have them, but the impact they have on their lives is so different. It all depends on financial situation, support from the rest of the family, friends, health situation..
In many cases this is not a different league, but an entirely different game with different rules and goals.
The article calls the lack of pro-activeness a CBF, but that is a symptom and not a cause. The fact that you CBF might not necessarily be a problem with you. It could be that you are in a different frame of reference compared to some other people who "do things perfectly".
Maybe moving maximum amount of Jiras into a done state is valued more than delivering this excellent refactoring. Maybe skipping unit tests and dropping feature branch to testers is perceived as a more pragmatic approach. Maybe your perfect commit will be unrecognizable a couple months later, because company is "moving fast".
People with great jobs in great companies will not understand this and call it laziness, procrastination or any other thing that will put you at blame. Just like people with great families will not understand what it means to have abusive parents.
Software development is about processes, but often developers have no say in setting up those processes, there is no feedback loop. Some naive manager will push to maximize some theoretical metric. In some cases you can adapt, circumvent certain obstacles, but sometimes you just CBF.