All this completely ignores the cataclysmic negative externalities, including environmental costs, knowledge atrophy and workforce erosion, accelerated burnout,

All this completely ignores the cataclysmic negative externalities, including environmental costs, knowledge atrophy and workforce erosion, accelerated burnout, slop-pollution of the open internet, shifting of power from engineers to management and SAAS corps, and empowerment/enrichment of some of the most morally vacuous people in tech history.