Welcome to the MOT community Sean. This is awesome, no honestly really it is good to hear well reasoned cases when KPI’s are useful for a change without gross bias language in the reasoning.
I always used to believe that things like your “escaped defects on areas tested”, although hard to quantify, was still a better metric by far than stupid things like code coverage, number of tests or flakiness. But at a high level one can see how such a belief can lead to a…
Lets test fewer areas so we get more time per area we do manage to test, mentality. Is that what you are hinting at there @sean_t ?