I am definitely not blaming you. It just feels that we have reached this bizarre state of affairs where we create so much useless cruft for vaguely articulated

I am definitely not blaming you. It just feels that we have reached this bizarre state of affairs where we create so much useless cruft for vaguely articulated reasons which are often not even true or borne in strong data, but are rather some abstract intuition of some marketing folks somewhere who are probably cargo-culting what they heard from another bunch of marketing folks.