Humans, generally, have a poor grasp of geometric and exponential curves.

(This is why they believe in fairy tales such as compound interest.)

lmao

and it feels like i've ONLY worked with subtractive engineers.

Would be nice if more people at work cared enough about the quality to be subtractive engineers, but the more & faster = better mentality, that is also made worse by the fact that the management is literally ordering for token maxxing, doesn't help at all with it.