In doing applied & community-based work (e.g. I've recruited a lot of people who otherwise do not participate in software research, esp bc the samples in SRE are terribly skewed to all white male), holding some of those analyses quiet to the public I think aids more authentic answering

A more out-there reason, for someone like me with some visibility in tech, there's a nontrivial amount of "copying the way you described this to write a blog and claim to originate the idea" that happens in software commentary "thought leadership" 😅 different kind of scooping but really annoying