Given how much damage it's done to our industry without any appreciable impact on the actual system's efficacy it makes sense to me that experts in a mechanism

Given how much damage it's done to our industry without any appreciable impact on the actual system's efficacy it makes sense to me that experts in a mechanism are critical of people telling them how effective this "tool" is for the mechanism. I suppose it's simply easier to think of them as scared and afraid of losing their lobs to robots, but the reality is most programmers already know someone who lost their job to a robot that doesn't even exist yet.