This report is looking at interesting issues, in a mostly pointless way (ask people what they think). The only part of it that was of any real use is the part

This report is looking at interesting issues, in a mostly pointless way (ask people what they think). The only part of it that was of any real use is the part where you can compare C-level answers to developer answers to the same question, not because either one is likely to be accurate, but because the delta between the two is of interest. Otherwise, I would say most of what they're looking at (what is bad code, how productive are developers, etc.) is so hard to measure, that the opinions of people on them are nearly useless. There may be a company or two out there that has a good handle on the productivity of their developers, the level of technical debt in their current codebase, etc. But surely most of them do not, and thus an average of the opinions of many people about something they have no clear handle on how to measure, is worse than useless.