> For the engineer writing code, I would absolutely expect they have different priorities and metrics than the business or accounting department.
And yet the business has that expectation.
> I personally wouldn't even consider hiring a dev who makes clear that the only metric they care about is gross sales.
Yes, you would, as you are instructed to. The only difference is that you have deluded yourself that there are interim metrics that actually matter, when they are all lossy abstractions of revenue or profit.
