The other side of this is it is likely if the engineers are optimising for a metric that is important enough to be tied to compensation, the companies' non-engi

The other side of this is it is likely if the engineers are optimising for a metric that is important enough to be tied to compensation, the companies' non-engineers are likely to place a high value on that metric too, exacerbating the issue. This is a situation where I feel gaming the system is not an inherently adversarial relationship.