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I would also really love to read a statistics-based approach to all of modern software engineering. Like, does SOLID actually increase bugs? Is Agile more likely to slow things down? Etc.

This is the closest I’ve ever found: http://www.knosof.co.uk/ESEUR/

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It strongly depends on the type of software being developed.

As the abstract of that book suggests (when referring to ego and bluster), 100% of the agile proponents I have encountered are incompetent. (This especially includes organizations that claim they are "agile").

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