You're not being petty. I consider that nonsense to be among the worst sort of micromanagement and a sign that the people leaders don't actually know or care about leading. I think there are much better ways for management to track what their direct reports are doing, but it actually requires them to manage.

I briefly worked at a place that implemented a time tracking application. We needed to accout for our entire 8 hour shift, down to 15 minute intervals. We needed to select a tracking code for each activity from a list of around 200 codes.

I had enough experience to loudly complain that this was a ridiculous way to track what we're working on, and that a kanban/story application would work much better to provide visibility and data. The pencil pusher who launched the initiative didn't have the political capital to quash the fomented discord, and the time tracking initiative was ended after about 6 weeks of unrest and protest data being packed into the system.

I didn't have the savvy or experience to first check who in the C-suite actually wanted it and what they wanted to accomplish. I would likely employ a much more diplomatic solution if it happened to me now.