I see a lot of straw man arguments in this thread. There are bad metrics - I think that’s uncontroversial. But you (and others) appear to be making the argument

I see a lot of straw man arguments in this thread. There are bad metrics - I think that’s uncontroversial. But you (and others) appear to be making the argument that there are no good metrics - and pointing to bad metrics is irrelevant there.