"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair I've experienced this firsthan

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair I've experienced this firsthand. Pushing for better development tooling and fixing problems instead of pushing features gets you a pink slip. Part of the reason I run my own shop now. It turns out the people most involved in estimating don't like it when you say that most estimates don't deliver any value.