[_jal]

As a profession, developers are likely more responsible for imposing mechanical, inhuman metrics and instrumentation on society than anyone since double-entry accounting was invented.

Everything from upvotes/likes/internet points to in-house fraud detection to click tracking to Captchas to facial recognition and tracking... Of course programmers are going to emit signals that those signing checks are going to take interest in.

I recommend you learn to live with it, everyone else has to.

[ric2b]

That's like saying construction workers have been imposing bridges on everyone.

Developers are rarely in control of a product's features.