They kind of do. If you work at a company where the CTO says "your performance bonus will be partially based on what a code analysis tool like SonarQube says a

They kind of do. If you work at a company where the CTO says "your performance bonus will be partially based on what a code analysis tool like SonarQube says about your code", then your future and the future of other similar people in your organization will be created following that path. They dictate which direction projects/milestones get prioritized + what fashion they get implemented in.