Computers have, just like they have with a lot of other things, made insane enforcement of inapplicable rules more faster, cheaper, and more efficient, and have

Computers have, just like they have with a lot of other things, made insane enforcement of inapplicable rules more faster, cheaper, and more efficient, and have entirely diluted responsibility for them to the nebulous, unimpeachable, unreachable 'vendor'. A sufficiently large quantitative difference turns into a qualitative difference. We're becoming a people that, at work, are turning all of our thinking over to machines.