I thought the reason was pretty dang simple: Every sprint I get assigned tickets to add new features and code and functionality and edge case handling, and very

I thought the reason was pretty dang simple: Every sprint I get assigned tickets to add new features and code and functionality and edge case handling, and very rarely do I get a sprint where I get a ticket to attempt to remove a minimal dependency. I can't take the time to do that on my own, because then the much vaunted "metrics" will go down.