Part of this is that many software engineers are bad at advocating for what they care about. One way of being bad at advocacy is to try to point to whatever has

Part of this is that many software engineers are bad at advocating for what they care about. One way of being bad at advocacy is to try to point to whatever has numbers, even if those numbers don't ultimately matter. Sadly, it takes a lot more skill and courage to say the following in a way that other stakeholders care about: "We should use this tool because when I started using it, data flows were clear in a way that finally silenced some of the anxiety that I don't know what the fuck I'm doing and I am going to ruin everything."