Indeed there are plenty of cases where the engineers' solution is _worse_ , because they've added a technical problem — the maintenance and configuration of a tool — to what was previously a business problem
("Now you have two problems")
Many technologies fit in this antipattern. I've seen it peak multiple times
regex 1999
XML 2003
"big data" 2007
"machine learning" 2010
"put a neural net on it" 2012
"Blockchain" 2013
"put a chatbot on it" 2016
GPTs 2022?