Every team doesn't need to have "great" engineers; I don't want "clever" solutions to my bog standard business application, just people to write sane, clean and maintainable code.
It's a shame some can't apply such metaphors tk humans and think "no, sure, there are single processors thst outperform entire distributed networks" we're different".
The guy who can roll his own probably also has a better idea than most what easy off the shelf solutions are out there.
Which is why I have learned to stay away from people who use that metric.
In 3-4 years when you need to make a drastic change, that’s when the actual business impact comes into play, but this is never measured.
In my experience with some groups, waiting another 2-3 months to do things correctly would have saved years in future work.