Are your team's favorite product metrics tricking you into solving the wrong problem?

Our team launched a feature and the stats looked amazing on paper clicks were up and daily usage was high.

But when we actually talked to users, they were still frustrated by an earlier step in the flow. Turns out good numbers On a dashboard just show what people click not if their actual headache got fixed.

How do you stop yourself from only fixing parts of the app that are easy to track?