Entirely so. Non-linear regression sounds like a tool that can be used without any ethical repercussions or philosophical angst about human obsolescence in the face of machine capabilities. It also sounds like a tool that anyone can use...either learn math or find a library that will do the (non)linear regression for you. I mean, you already heard about linear regression in high school, right? It doesn't sound as exotic as AI/DL either...

If the barriers to entry are low, then that means anyone can take advantage of the Power of Math to do Great Things(tm). Said "Great Things(tm)" might include humans trusting their models way too much and end up doing stupid stuff as a result of them, but people have been misusing statistics for generations and we haven't killed ourselves (yet).