It's more about avoiding avoiding negative emotions being associated with the work in a way which does hamper productivity. Software Development is that strang

It's more about avoiding avoiding negative emotions being associated with the work in a way which does hamper productivity. Software Development is that strange split between clear defined engineering aspects and creativity aspects which are often as important. I have seen major problems in projects due to developers being dissatisfied and annoyed with the tools they can use. The problem was twofold - first it was not that they couldn't use the newest exiting tools, but that the tools they had to use had horrible UX making them unnecessary hard to use. Like if you tell someone they have to now turn pages of an book with a fork instead of their hands. - The other problem was that one person involved had a fixed view about what is good and in their view must be done and nothing else is good and doing something else is always stupid and as such in their view their work is stupid and worthless and as such they don't want to do that at all as it's just a pointless wast of time which will be discarded in the future anyway... Which is quite a bad approach to your job, tbh. And caused some massive problems later on.