It's never going away. The thing to understand about corporate capitalism is that executives don't work for companies; companies work for executives. The bosse

It's never going away. The thing to understand about corporate capitalism is that executives don't work for companies; companies work for executives. The bosses want brag points so they can justify promotions, and that's all they care about. Subjective achievements don't matter, from this perspective. The health of the company certainly doesn't matter. Being able to say they grew a team from 40 to 150 people... and then being able to say they "saved $10 million per year" when they cut all those people... those "achievements" burnish their resumes and, therefore, matter. There's also an element of toxic masculinity in play here. No, I am not saying that all masculinity is toxic (it's not, not at all) and I am certainly not saying men or maleness are toxic (I'm a man, and most people would read me as masculine). But you cannot understand corporate America if you don't understand the toxic masculinity on which it is based. Here it pertains to the division of labor between "male work" and "female work". The nice-to-haves and the subjective improvements are female work; the ugly work (usually, ugly because it hurts other people, as if "making tough decisions" were as onerous as being on the receiving end thereof) that actually drives a P&L is male work. (Does this distinction of labor as male or female map in any intrinsic way to the biological sexes, as opposed to the social construct of gender? I highly doubt it.) What we see in companies is that the work regarded as "male" grabs all the glory and accrues power; the work that can be construed of as the objective domination of others for the company's direct benefit is what gets rewarded and will, in time, be the only work that matters. The nice-to-haves don't; their contribution to the health of the company (or to the health of society, about which executives care even less) is too diffuse to be considered real.