It also creates bad incentives - "oh I need to commit every day? let me spread out today's work over the whole week so I can get a green mark for every day inst

It also creates bad incentives - "oh I need to commit every day? let me spread out today's work over the whole week so I can get a green mark for every day instead of shipping this feature that's ready" Goodhart's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) gets repeated a lot in threads like these but it's for a good reason.