99% of stakeholder "ideas" is just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling.
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The circular logic of our metrics
We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.