This stuff happens all of the time. Middle management has to educate upper management on why certain metrics are bad. I do it all the time. Most recent one w

This stuff happens all of the time. Middle management has to educate upper management on why certain metrics are bad. I do it all the time. Most recent one was length a PR was open. Some of my better devs opened PRs earlier and left them open for feedback longer, and I didn't want them penalized, so I communicated (with data) to management that it was a bad metric and we no longer measure it.