Slightly more OT, the fact that this requires more work for less credit is exactly why I think "impact" based "meritocracies" are broken. As klyrs points out in

Slightly more OT, the fact that this requires more work for less credit is exactly why I think "impact" based "meritocracies" are broken. As klyrs points out in another top-level comment, it's also often the result of discrimination. Many of the worst "never listens" folks I've worked with did listen to people of their own ethnicity (or from their own former employer) without requiring multiple rounds of softening up. I don't know how to fix that. My suggestion is only about how to work in the world-as-it-is to arrive at better technical decisions.