OK, that's definitely a shitty situation. But if you imagine that instead you were empowered to shut off nonsense alerts and address causes of real ones, you w

OK, that's definitely a shitty situation. But if you imagine that instead you were empowered to shut off nonsense alerts and address causes of real ones, you wouldn't have actually eliminated on-call, so I'm a little confused about how you conclude from this that "all" on-call is abusive.