Yup. The thing that's disturbing about this is that someone senior must understand Goodhart's law in the company. Which makes it more likely the side-effects are, in fact, intended.
After all, you can't believe in perverse incentives without first believing in incentives!
People in business largely believe in sales people getting bonuses for closing big sales, CEOs getting bonuses for raising the stock price, and workers getting bonuses for delivering projects on time and under budget.
At the end of the day they couldn’t give a shit about Goodhart’s law and all the book they were made to read in order to keep playing the game.
Especially if he thinks stack ranking is the shit.