Way past that. "Agile" (i.e. micromanagement) methodologies and tooling are already firmly seated which is basically this same special hell.

I guess we have a generation of technologists that didn't realize when to stop foaming at the mouth at efficiency over humanity or perhaps they were lead here with bags of money and deceit.

I love efficiency and optimisation too (with certain processes), but not at the cost of human happiness. Our current optimizations are ever growingly sacrificing basic happiness for efficiency which is not a tradeoff we should want or agree to.