Isn’t it worse, for the reason mentioned in the OP (it’s Goodhart-able)?
This is why it is important that the ‘spirit of cricket’ is never properly codified into laws. If it was, then players would simply game the rules and find the most successful strategy that operates within the laws of the game and the process would be Goodharted.
Maybe in theory, but in practice humans have actual limits on performance and sometimes adequate rules actually succeed in limiting our ability to continue to game the systems to our advantage. That or the cost of further gaming is too high to be worth it (for example, in baseball egregious bad sportsmanship is often rewarded with the pitcher intentionally hitting the batter with the pitch).
Isn’t it worse, for the reason mentioned in the OP (it’s Goodhart-able)?
Maybe in theory, but in practice humans have actual limits on performance and sometimes adequate rules actually succeed in limiting our ability to continue to game the systems to our advantage. That or the cost of further gaming is too high to be worth it (for example, in baseball egregious bad sportsmanship is often rewarded with the pitcher intentionally hitting the batter with the pitch).