im not sure about anyone else, but I can tell when a human has pick/packed my order, and the product is always better for it.
How would you verify that your belief is correct?
Including in software.
Given that, as far as I can tell, most handmade artisanal software is given away for free (or nearly so), what are you basing that on?
It's throwing shit in a box. Who cares how neat it is? As long as things arrive sealed and intact, it's fine.
"When it comes to olive picking, the best a robot can do is get 60% of the olives.
Humans can do about ~80%.
Robots are so much cheaper than humans that it makes sense to use the robot even with the 60/80 performance split."