>but Amazon is very clear that this isn't an official metric.

You're replying to an amazon employee who says they are being used in performance reviews, in comment thread on an article where 2 other Amazon employees say that their token usage is being tracked and they feel pressure to maximize token usage.

Do you have first hand knowledge to refute these 3 people with first hand knowledge?

The CAD thing is incredibly weird. I've never known an architect who had their CAD usage minutes tracked.

Btw I'm a big tech company and I know many people who are "token maxing". It's very common.