Being data-driven for the sake is being data-driven is indeed becoming an issue. The resources spent measuring and analysing data are overwhelmingly larger than they should in most cases. Cohorts of "data scientists" and "managers" dive head on into data without much (if any!) first-principles thinking. People tend to replicate metrics without much thought into their relevance to the specific situation. Thinking properly is a very hard skill to acquire (the hardest?), and most do everything they can to avoid it.

"What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing." -- Joseph Stiglitz