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"...rather you get a bunch of people xgboosting their way up your leaderboard" -->

I don't see that as a universally bad thing. I feel this is actually very representative of the majority of ML projects that most organizations encounter. Most organizations don't have petabytes of data and a huge compute budget to train a DNN. They typically have megabytes to gigabytes of somewhat crappy data and need something that can be developed and deployed relatively quickly for low cost.