This would all be true if perceptions matched reality for model performance and productivity.

Hopefully not in the same way you should never naively trust compilers!

Somebody's gotta be eaten alive. So why not you, bcjdjsndon?

I refuse to believe that humanity on a whole is that incapable. Or at least unwilling to try to do something different.

Is that typical of people who hold this view?

It could be both correct, and a cheap signal.