I find it slightly insidious how the entire concept of yak shaving is framed in the article as a lack of attention span or directed focus on the part of the dev

I find it slightly insidious how the entire concept of yak shaving is framed in the article as a lack of attention span or directed focus on the part of the developer, instead of a consequence of being required to work in a suboptimal environment. In my experience the majority of yak shaving is spent removing direct impediments to solving the task at hand. Distraction is always an issue, but I feel that falls under the bracket of "doing the wrong task" rather than "the path to complete the task is indirect and convoluted". With this kind of framing we can look at the cause of yak shaving as a failing of an individual, rather than a lack of an accurate and holistic view of what the task entails given the current state of the system.