False optimism Memes

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of spending 30 HOURS automating a task that takes 3 MINUTES to do manually! But darling, that's the hill we die on! 💅 The banner says it ALL: "We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy." The AUDACITY of our optimism! The DELUSION of our time estimates! Sure, I could just do the task 600 times manually before breaking even on my automation investment, but where's the DRAMA in that? The THRILL of overengineering? The pure ECSTASY of writing a script that will save me time in some hypothetical future that will never come?!