So picture it: you hold the reins of the company, you just neeeeed to get more cash out of it faster, but that’s hart because you’re paying all these people all this money for all these things that you don’t quite understand but seem like they •should• be a lot easier…
…and suddenly somebody says you can just replace them all with machines?! Prayers answered!
It’s pretty hard not to switch off the thinking part of your brain at that point. Shiny toy on the store shelf.