There's a movement away from evaluating people or teams qualitatively, which is difficult and prone to dumb biases, and towards quantitative measures, which are

There's a movement away from evaluating people or teams qualitatively, which is difficult and prone to dumb biases, and towards quantitative measures, which are easy and prone to dumber biases. Presumably here (I don't know if it's been proven) people in that org are being measured by how many commits they make, ignoring the depth or quality of the commits. Because it's someone's idea of a Key Performance Indicator (KPI.) So people are "grabbing" easy commits.