i used to work on bezo's fc automation back in 2012 to 2016, they've been they'd been talking about "lights out fc" being just around the corner since since those days. if anything we had adjacent teams that were working on temp worker and worker scheduling systems, "people management" systems that had more interest from leadership. imo a lot of the automation stuff ended up being real timid and imo really was to juice valuation.
lol i no longer have energy for gotta hear both sides argument, whether its naive because of a myopic and narrow world view or just bad faith. like you said - how tf is mask wearing a political issue jfc