From my perspective I feel proponents of AA are doing the bait and switch. I think a lot of 'AA' in practice is similar to what is done with Harvard admissions

From my perspective I feel proponents of AA are doing the bait and switch. I think a lot of 'AA' in practice is similar to what is done with Harvard admissions either by deliberate design or poor incentives. For example say a business notices an incorrect distribution of employees and then decides to introduce the steelman AA policy in order to try and fix this disparity. Businesses prefer to measure outcomes over process so you end up having either implicit or explicit racial proportions as goals instead of having the 'steelman AA' process being the goal. This ends up leading to explicit racial preferences and the strawman AA as the implementation.