You are not thinking at all carefully about what it is to measure something and how much meaning you get from that. Metrics need to convey a lot of useful meani

You are not thinking at all carefully about what it is to measure something and how much meaning you get from that. Metrics need to convey a lot of useful meaning, and measure something that is worth measuring, otherwise they are worse than useless. I’ve seen otherwise-intelligent people led totally astray because of this totally blinkered fetishisation of metrics over everything else. You cannot meaningfully reduce even a small complex system to a handful of graphs. There is a place for metrics, but responsible use demands humility, not supremacy.