This is why data driven decision making is a trap. Even if the data is correct, which it's usually not, its still not complete just by definition. It's instinctually a dumbed down, distilled, and one-dimensional view of the real world, of meat space, and you gotta treat it like that.
Here's what is scary. I have been looking at many job descriptions for a Developer Experience Engineer or similar positions. About half of them ask for experience with automated tools to measure developer productivity!