Customer: What will this project cost?
You: Five XL T-shirts.
Excuse the snark, but a lot of business decisions are made based on how much Project X will cost. You likely get paid based on time, so it's quite natural to gravitate toward time units - any intermediary unit is just an abstraction.
Makers' Den | Full Stack JS Developer | Remote (Poland) | Full-time
We're a small remote-first software agency delivering web apps with BlitzJS/NextJS/ReactJS/NodeJS/Typescript. We're an agency by developers, for developers.
I played around 96-98. After that I continued hanging around as a wizard (coder) for a few years. Created some areas and relaunched the Barbarian guild (For Groo)
Excuse the snark, but a lot of business decisions are made based on how much Project X will cost. You likely get paid based on time, so it's quite natural to gravitate toward time units - any intermediary unit is just an abstraction.