Yeah, we're shouting into the wind here. I have had people tell me directly that my ideas from old school state estimation were irrelevant in the era of deep learning. They may produce (in this case) worse results, but the long game I'm assured is superior.

The specific scenario was estimating the orientation of a stationary semi trailer. An objectively measurable number and it was consistently off by 30 deg, yet I was the jerk for suggesting we move from end to end DL to trad Bar Shalom techniques.

That scene isn't for me anymore.