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I'm not exposed to this personally, but a lot of my acquaintances in the industry are. I think your use of "insane" really nails it. When was the last time a tool in software genuinely produced a huge efficiency gain but didn't see widespread, enthusiastic adoption by the rank and file? Hell, most of the time, leadership would try to keep it from us at first in cases like that. CI servers and hosted version control come to mind.
I'm old. I've experienced a similar tool that was shoved down my throat by management at an F-500 company because it was going to eliminate the need for programmers. It was Rational Rose, and it turns out its main value proposition was that executives got really nice dinners from the sales team.
Maybe it's different this time, but it sure seems familiar.
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