I'm going to name the phenomenon you're arguing against "UX projection". As a software engineer, when I imagine myself doing a lawyer's job, I would want a too

I'm going to name the phenomenon you're arguing against "UX projection". As a software engineer, when I imagine myself doing a lawyer's job, I would want a tool like this. But that misses the point. Good UX requires first being attentive to the actual problems expressed by users. Otherwise we end up with the pretense of empathy: projection.