It's stupid, but that's why we all have jobs.
After engineers have the power of implementation and de-implementstion. They need to step into dirty politics and bend other people's views.
It's either theirs or ours. Win-win is a fallacy.
But as I’ve grown in my career I’ve actually found that line of thinking refreshing. Can you quantify benefit? If it requires too many assumptions it’s probably not worth it.
But then again there’s always the Vp or the svp who wants to “showcase his towers’ innovative spirit” and then there goes money that could be used for better things. The innovative spirit of the day is random Llm apps.