The person who takes a business problem and proposes an expansive solution that requires a big team that they lead to victory, that person climbs the ranks.
The person that takes the same business problem and carefully simplifies both the problem and the solution, and delivers it themselves, is rewarded but not at all like the team leader.
If I can close 100 tickets with less code than someone else, I've still closed 100 tickets.
I've seen a host of other imperfect measuring sticks, including the "tickets" metric I cited. But the post to which I was replying said that people are judged on how much code they write.