I don't know if the author intentionally omits it or failed to think about it, but sabermetrics (moneyball) is possible because literally everything a baseball player does is tracked. I can't say how players actually feel about that, but their job is to perform in front of millions of people and they're being paid millions of dollars per year (often 10s of millions) to deal with it. White collar workers have no incentive to put up with that kind of crap, especially not ones in high demand like SWE's.