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If this is earnest, I don't mean to minimize your angst, but I thought this was satire. Measuring by number of commits or story points completed is bureaucratic nonsense. What you're describing is not a 10x developer, but a really good bureaucrat, like Hermes Conrad.

As others have said, get a new job. Prioritize finding colleagues that are better than you are.



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