Evidence? My friend, most of the practices in this field are promoted and adopted based on hand-waving, feelings, and anecdata from influencers.

Maybe you should write and share your own article to counter this one.

Also if something is fun, we prefer to to it that way instead of the boring way. Then it depends on how many mines you step on, after a while you try to avoid the mines. That's when your productivity goes down radically. If we see something shiny we'll happily run over the minefield again though.