Exactly! Development tasks where the within-task technical software issues are the determinant of time estimation are so fleetingly rare that estimation is not

Exactly! Development tasks where the within-task technical software issues are the determinant of time estimation are so fleetingly rare that estimation is not useful as a general practice. In fact I might even _define_ “senior engineer” as someone who has been around long enough to know this and has come up with some way to pacify managers with meaningless estimates in a way that protects the team so it can actually still do work.