Sure, if there's a business need for cleaning the office toilets I'll stop coding and do it for a day.
In this case it's "everyone needs to spend a few weeks getting points in the training portal, we don't care what you do in there as long as you get points". This clearly doesn't fulfill any business need, people just do whatever BS is the least effort per point. And as you might expect from an internal training portal, spending 20 minutes in that thing makes me want to stab myself.
Again, if there's a business need for it that's a different story, but useless mandates just to jerk people around are a deal breaker.