I always have some trepidation on claims that things could be better in a field if we only did it differently. I am open to "what got you here may not get you

I always have some trepidation on claims that things could be better in a field if we only did it differently. I am open to "what got you here may not get you further," but I get the strong feeling that the metrics we think are valuable, are ignoring many other metrics and ideas that are doing some heavy lifting.