This is nonsense on stilts. I recently burned out hard, (I have been off for about 6 weeks) largely because I was made to spend hundreds of hours automating man

This is nonsense on stilts. I recently burned out hard, (I have been off for about 6 weeks) largely because I was made to spend hundreds of hours automating manual tasks performed by higher ups on an infrequent basis on top of my normal workload, despite the fact that it will literally take years of those automations being in production before there is a net gain in time or productivity for the company. Automation is sometimes worth it but often it is just a pointless time sink that people like to pretend boosts their productivity and which they can wave around to show how smart they are.