This is fine advice, but it's really advice for an individual more than an org, and if you are in leadership you need to consider whether your teams and process

This is fine advice, but it's really advice for an individual more than an org, and if you are in leadership you need to consider whether your teams and processes are set up in a way that both leaves room for your engineers to do this and also ideally even actively encourages their doing so. To phrase it another way: Each engineer might have the best of intentions but if success is measured by new feature velocity, adherence to this rule becomes less likely.