sounds like somebody who's never had to park in multiple cities

Is your issue with math in this example the tediousness of the operations or a conceptual lack of understanding of how to solve them?

Nobody cares about your college book report. It's there to prove, or teach you, that you can do the extremely basic task of synthesizing information. Same with math without a calculator. You should have a mental model of basic math. It helps avoid shooting your foot off later. You might never have to do math from first principles again, but you should get over the hump once.

Hopefully you feel about the same way about every bit of vitriol levied towards tech workers.

If you're trying to effect actual change that seems like a great way to harden the people you need to be influencing against you.

Indeed, if you're nice they might take your side. If you're an asshole, that's a lot less likely.

Maybe, you'd be absolutely rolled by fraudsters in the opposite case.

Darn, I'd wished they improved one of the existing Go or Rust implementations.

The AI companies can spare their whining about contempt of business model. They're selling a service.

In defense of SAP, their product really is built to be configurable for every use case under the sun.