> I shared the numbers internally and someone asked about the ROI. Production cost for jsonata-js in the previous month was about $25K - now it was 0. That conversation ended up being pretty short.

I'm obviously projecting from my own experience, but it echoes so clearly how power can be wielded without actual insight and an almost arrogantly: "OK, all very nice, but the ROI...?"

The article seems to come from a company with stellar engineering so maybe doesn't apply to this case. But, the tone I imagine from that comment still stands out. To me more, precisely because of the mature engineering.

Of course ROI is important and a company exists to build it. I'm extrapolating from something tiny and thinking of the Boeing culture shift: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25677848

In short, why can't good engineering just be good engineering fostered with trust and then profits?