This is correct. There's lots of people in here complaining with all the authority of experience when in fact, they're complaining that the ruler they're using

This is correct. There's lots of people in here complaining with all the authority of experience when in fact, they're complaining that the ruler they're using to measure a mile is too small. Throw rulers in the bin! Down with measuring all together! Engineering needs risk management, accurate estimation and prediction, cost control and all the other things SWEs tend to thumb their nose at. If you think something is crap, chances are you're using it wrong or don't understand. Sadly software is filled with "smartest person in the room" types who think if they don't understand something, then it is clearly not them at fault! Pop your ego aside and ask. People like Sverhagen actually know what the tool should be used for. Sadly software isn't building a house, assembling a car or any other engineering task with very uniform and predictable discrete components ... so we need measures that deal with the ambiguity, complexity and attempt to measure inaccuracy accurately. Estimation with something like a fib sequence is designed to abstractly encapsulate the real-world impact of a task in terms of risk, effort, unpredictability, variability and so on. Odd that software engineers so adept at abstract reasoning can fail to see that this estimation method (like all of them) is a lossy encapsulation of many concerns. Sadly unsuprising that many offer no alternative, just complaints and bluster.