you might be completely correct but, as i suspect you already know you come off more than a little bitter and it is a bad look.
It’s not just me either, but I say it because it needs to be said, because unless you identify the failure there’s no hope in hell of finding a fix. Mac Automation isn’t on its ass because it’s old or bad technology; it’s on its ass because it was horribly mismanaged by a clueless incompetent of a project manager.
The tech could still be fixed; the problem now is politics. That’s why I think it’s borked, but until the last ax drops I’ll keep on trying to salvage it anyway because I care that much about the fundamental principle: putting power and control back in the hands of the users.