This is a rampant problem in the enterprise world, and it drives me nuts. I regularly have to work for clients who mandate using Sonar Qube (or/and other SAST tools) with strict policies, and also require 85%-100% test coverage on all projects regardless of how much sense it makes.

Predictably, teams have to spend way too much energy getting "waivers" approved by some ridiculous group, and inevitably end up creating tests that don't actually test anything, just to get the coverage figures up.