When the bones are right then an incremental benefit unlocks compounding results.

Mechanizing the process is capex vs opex.

It works for you even when you're asleep or distracted.

You don't have to do the process, the machine does the process, automatically.

This is a massive difference.

When I worked on Search, the rule was "You can't check in ranking configuration data. You can only check in the software that will produce the configuration data."

That one rule gave massive leverage to the system, and that leverage compounded the more of it that was piled on top.

That's the difference between a Gilded Turd architecture and a Grubby Truffle.