It's not that I think this is the only flawed metric or that there are other methods that are quantifiably better. It's that we've spent ridiculous sums of time and money on this complicated new metric, despite some pretty clear arguments against it, and we still are very far away from actually proving that it is better than the status quo, even if that status quo obviously falls somewhat short of perfection.

It's like.. how much money and effort do you think is worthwhile to spend on something with such uncertain prospects? There are tons of great grant proposals to funding agencies which are rejected. Maybe we would be better off funding some of those. Opportunity costs exist, and it seems like undue sums of money are being wasted on this stuff.