No software engineering practice, architecture, language, or tooling is known to be more effective because we don't even have units of measurement. We are still

No software engineering practice, architecture, language, or tooling is known to be more effective because we don't even have units of measurement. We are still in the "hope it doesn't fall down" stage of software engineering. This has profound effects for self reported productively. For example, biking feels faster than driving 30mph with the windows up down a small suburban road with lots of stop signs. But typically the driver will still get 20 blocks away much much faster. However if we had no units of measurement, everyone would be arguing the bike was faster. This is where we are with software engineering.