you say that like it's a bad thing. trying to game user engagement/user retention numbers are what get you things like notification requests when you visit ran

you say that like it's a bad thing. trying to game user engagement/user retention numbers are what get you things like notification requests when you visit random websites (I'm looking at you, website for arbitrary midwest nbc affiliate). I posit that the "stickiness" factor of website is a bad measure of how "good" its design is.