I think a lot of it is really just pure incompetence. Some product person was just like "we need analytics" and so a dev just put it in. Probably neither party

I think a lot of it is really just pure incompetence. Some product person was just like "we need analytics" and so a dev just put it in. Probably neither party put any thought into it. The product person was trained to want analytics and the dev just does what they're told.