For better and for worse, it's been decades since filling out a form was a necessary or even useful part of tracking this sort of thing. The widespread use of revision control and ticketing systems means that management has that data at their fingertips whenever they want it.
Sometimes that's good, sometimes it isn't. But I think we can count relieving the developers of the drudgery of form-filling as an unalloyed good.
While the article mentions form filling, that isn't the point.
The point is that there are management styles out there that tries to objectively measure a software engineer's performance (poorly). And unless you are someone with high clout in the organization, you are subjected to it regardless of whether you like it, it making sense, or it being used to control the employees (politics).
Sometimes that's good, sometimes it isn't. But I think we can count relieving the developers of the drudgery of form-filling as an unalloyed good.