There's nothing wrong with feeling good about hitting a massive word count in a short period of time, and bragging about it because you're pumped. Good for you! But if you see someone doing this and feel bad about your own process, don't. Word count isn't the measure of worth.

It fascinating word count went from writing to programming where it became an entire pattern but then an antipattern and now it is back to writing for them to rediscover the same things.

What is word count? It's a measure of progress toward a goal. That's a worthy thing to keep track of and celebrate, especially since writing fiction is such a long, iterative process. But it's just one part of a process that varies infinitely from writer to writer.