DSPy never made full sense even back then in the somnet 3.5 era and it makes no sense today. Not a gut reaction but pure evals (we have had teams create the same agents using dspy, langgraph compete with pure agent loops and the agent loops come across as so much better by a wide margin). Its the people who insist on these procedural ideas that need to prove with data or money in revenue that these archaic ideas make any sense to consider.

Incidentally the teams and people who think dspy is great are also generally the worse teams that can never make a lovable product so take from that what you want.