This, to me, is a common fairy tale technical people like to tell themselves to justify not getting involved in the social connections (aka politics) necessary to be fully successful. It doesn&#x27;t matter what metrics you choose, because they will <i>all</i> be gamed. Just like the politics is gamed. And no matter what game is picked, certain people will just not like playing it, and will bemoan the choice and why couldn&#x27;t they have picked X, some other random metric that will also be gamed. But at least they <i>like</i> that game so they&#x27;ll play along and possibly even excel.