Don't love your tone, but I agree. I have been working in what was called predictive analytics for 16 years. I've done tons of projects, for tons of companies,

Don't love your tone, but I agree. I have been working in what was called predictive analytics for 16 years. I've done tons of projects, for tons of companies, and this sort of refrain from people is pretty common when they don't have experience in the field. They think of it like some fad that doesn't make a lick of sense outside of a C-level discussion. But the reality is, predictive analytics is extremely powerful. One of the last projects I did was to save Trains from derailing. Another was to improve crop yield of a farming company by using satellite imagery to determine when a field was most needed to be harvested. Tons of other examples. To even explain the particular use cases would take quite awhile because they are domain specific issues. Cron isn't solving these problems. What the person is really saying is, I don't have experience in these topics, what can be so hard about them? The same style for people who arm chair sports, or politics, or programming, or any other topic. It all seems easy when you don't know the details.