Good points. I talk about some of the very well justified backlash against productivity in this other article: https://medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/were-in-a-productivity-crisis-according-to-52-years-of-data-things-could-get-really-bad-5c7e53242a0

Also, the more time I have spent researching, the more I have come across compelling explanations. So far I have saved about 30+ explanations in this Google Doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oLsIAK7JMNjhj_yYE8frwolmcKQZA3vXqIiB4L4sdAo/edit

I am going to add yours to this as well as I think I could dive a lot deeper and understand it better. Are there any books on this topic you'd recommend I read to understand some of the mismanagement practices you're seeing and why they're happening?