I'm in the retirement age bracket. My last experience as a consultant led to disgust with valorizing quantity of work as measured by an arbitrary metric susceptible to simple gaming.

That, and prioritizing "new" features over maintenance because the former were booked as CapEx work, thus amortizable, while maintenance was booked as OpEx, combined with companies wanting to minimize CapEx ratio for accounting purposes.

Notice how little of what is measured and managed has anything to do with building working software to satisfy user needs?