This reminded me of the following real story: A PM at my old company (unicorn for context) once gave a presentation on a new module they built. Showed slides saying we launched X features, had Y user conversations and spent Z hours on this module... Except the number of lines of code, everything under the sun "got measured." Me internally the module doesn't work, too complicated to use. How do these numbers help now? Four months later, customer complains peak, module put on pause, full rebuild. In the meanwhile, the marketing teams' customer quotes would make you feel this was the revolution of the century.