My experience is different. Given the choice between fixing a quality issue that can be easily measured/detected and one that cannot, a lot of people will pref

My experience is different. Given the choice between fixing a quality issue that can be easily measured/detected and one that cannot, a lot of people will prefer the measurable, easy-to-detect one. So the folks on the 'code quality' committee end up introducing tools that make it impossible to merge if your markdown file has two consecutive blank lines - rather than spending the time on performance or security which are much harder to keep on top of with automated tooling.