Counterpoint: my recent favourite piece of media was made 100x better by the brilliant translation and localisation, and probably why I watched beyond the first episode (and bought physical copies). Considering finding out who translated it so I can email their employers my thanks.

(But then I've also experienced The Barrel™ where I really wish I could have refused a vast number of metrics/indices, but alas.)

Ultimately, the promotion/hiring/prestige system needs to change in tandem (or at least eventually) for the entire thing to become sustainable.

Personally, I heavily agree. I think the difficulty is both in balancing the need for funding and that for some these metrics are directly tied to employment/promotion. I have had to ask myself if I have the backbone to say no in the face of someone's employability and the answer was no, admittedly.

Absolutely. I've been considering writing about it as we're doing nothing but (re)shackling ourselves with different chains as long as we don't reject these metrics. As long as we rely on infrastructure (in the broadest sense) that only exists to exploit labour and extract value, we're borked.

The pain I feel reading this as a bs metric (JIF especially) hater, forced to accept and embrace that nefarious metric.