Nobody mentioned astrology or dilution of responsibility? Dashboards are an astrological tool. Here is an elaborate and complicated process you don't understa

Nobody mentioned astrology or dilution of responsibility? Dashboards are an astrological tool. Here is an elaborate and complicated process you don't understand to generate numbers that are devoid of meaning, to dilute responsibility when you make a decision that turns out to be wrong. The article misses this point entirely. A good dashboard from the end user perspective can be used as numerical backup for any arbitrary decision at any time. The author just doesn't get it. Thats why the author is confused by the "just keep adding stuff until I can always use it to justify whatever I want to do". This is how dashboards are used in practice, this is their actual reason for existing. This is why money is spent on them. The article is like a debunking of astrology, "well see here, based on the gravitational constant and the distance to this orange vs venus, the square results in ..." and the boss replys with "shut up I don't care about reasons I decided to go to war with eastasia and we've always been at war with eastasia and my astrologer always had my back, and apparently you don't, so lets discuss the effect of all this gravitational formula stuff on your career prospects vs backing me up which you're paid as a yes man to do..."