Companies invest in all sorts of things that don't have an immediately tangible impact. In terms of developer productivity, it all depends on management's assu

Companies invest in all sorts of things that don't have an immediately tangible impact. In terms of developer productivity, it all depends on management's assumptions built into their labor model. If you are paying top of market for "A players" who do "10x," the company might need the few engineers it has to do a huge/unsustainable amount of "focused work" If management's model depends on high-potential team members upskilling on the job, "the fun stuff" might just be priced in. The above are absolutely reductive and do not cover all cases.