I enjoyed this post and found myself agreeing with you on almost every point. It’s often thought that machines are always the best way to improve a process, but the more I research this, the harder it is to justify mechanization. For instance, at my job I have to comb through data every day that is given to me by an online program that manages our inventory. I often find multiple mistakes and discrepancies that would not have occurred if a few humans had taken an hour to do this themselves. This leads to me wasting a few hours of time that I could be using to do other tasks. This post really hit home with me, so thank you for sharing your thoughts.