The incompatible productivity trap

Today we see enough products around us to make us dizzy, and it’s not always easy sorting through what is beneficial, what is a waste of time, and even worse, what is a waste of time, money and resources.
Furthermore there is another practice that really rubs me the wrong way, and that is the pipeline mentality where things are planned and promised but not even close to being done and ready, not even on MVP level.

One thing is to make the promises, another is to deliver on them, and deliver on a level which makes the promises fulfilled, which today seems to be a rather fleeting operation.
Yes, you might get a MVP of a function or something of the sort, but it is not ensured that it will run in the way that was promised nor behave the way it was outlined.
We are suffering from success, just to throw in some cheese quotes, and the speed of which we need the gratifications.

And to pull one or two big ones out of the hat, we can mention CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 and EA’s Battlefield 2042, these were woefully incomplete at the launch of the product, and the only reason why these are being posed as big names is because of the sheer amount of bugs, glitches, lack of features etc where around at launch, and only to get fixed some, 6 to 8 months later.

We can all appreciate that the shareholders needs to be satisfied, but at what cost is this currently being done?

It is a practice that is very hard to justify, at least from a consumer perspective where you are promised paradise, and end up with a pile of stinking poo in your hands.
To some, this might be a sort of paradise, but that must be very few and I certainly know no such person.

A result like this, is what you get when people who do not understand the difficulties with technologies etc are running the show and defining timelines they have zero understanding of how to achieve except just get salty and snarky when the people who do understand the technologies told them it was impossible… but they were forced to trundle on regardless.

The end result of this is that we end up with a compromise where everyone involved are equally unhappy with the results achieved thus far.
This in turn leads to resentment up the entire chain and can only lead to even more toxic work environments, which nobody is served well with.

And with a resurgence of the powers to be to force workforce back into expensive offices that in reality is not needed, the structure will become ever more present in the daily life where less and less is achieved as we all strive for peak productivity.

Productivity in itself is a good thing, but it can also act as a very nasty trap where the strive for it makes you feeling productive, while in fact you achieved absolutely zero progression to the established goal.