This is the engineering point of view, but in a business productivity is judged from a business point of view.
The goal of software development is to deliver chargeable value to customers.
When you refactor code you do not deliver value to customers and since you have spent time and resources to do that your overall productivity from a business point of view has in fact dropped.
The goal of software development is to deliver chargeable value to customers.
When you refactor code you do not deliver value to customers and since you have spent time and resources to do that your overall productivity from a business point of view has in fact dropped.