Team Lead/Manager here. I frequently have the opposite problem: people who think code coverage (quantity) is as important as or worse more important than test quality. I'd much rather have low percentage high quality coverage than high-percentage low quality coverage.
I completely agree. I've met a few developers who think that 100% coverage is required, and that a complete set of tests will save them from all bugs. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they wrote pretty crap code. Passed the tests, but it was unpleasant to work with.
I like to see good coverage (say, 85%) because the act of trying to cover that much has led us to discovering some bugs that would otherwise have gone unnoticed until someone ran into them in production. But 100% line coverage is still a tiny, tiny fraction of covering all permutations of how that code is used, so I feel like trying to hit some kind of holy grail perfect coverage target over-emphasizes the value of tests. While tests can absolutely be very useful, it's the actual running code that needs to be high quality, the tests are just helpers.
