Your entire argument smells to me like The Politician’s Fallacy: Something must be done. This is something. Therefore we must do it. There’s lots of that in

Your entire argument smells to me like The Politician’s Fallacy: Something must be done. This is something. Therefore we must do it. There’s lots of that in business: Long explanation for why something must be done, then a short explanation for what “this” is, and we just have to take it on faith that “this” will do anything to fix the problem that makes us feel like something must be done. But as long as “everyone else is doing it,” we all believe in this something that we must do, and as long as we all believe it, we’ll all back “this something” we must do. Whether it works, doesn’t work, or even makes it worse. e.g. If you ask people how many golf balls fit in an airplane, word gets around and the next thing you know, people who can game PIPs to not get fired will game your interview to get hired in the first place. And by hiring them, you don’t hire someone else who can actually do the job but doesn’t solve recreational puzzles for a hobby, nor do they spend any time learning how to game interviews. This is the thinking that also brought us, “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM,” and so forth: An emphasis on doing the thing people believe must be done, rather than looking for something that works whether it’s popular or not.