You’ve articulated, correctly, a need for performance reviews. We have a need to measure performance, but we don’t have reasonably objective ways to do it that

You’ve articulated, correctly, a need for performance reviews. We have a need to measure performance, but we don’t have reasonably objective ways to do it that simultaneously measure what we actually care about. There’s a kind of tradeoff here, where on one end you have the most useful performance measurements, and on the other end you have the most objective performance measurements. When you’re doing things well, the best you can do is fall somewhere on that line. The entire line is bullshit, you just get to choose what kind of bullshit you have. Large orgs tend to skew towards objectivity because it minimizes liability, and large orgs are full of people trying to avoid being liable for mistakes.