This is a badly written story. It should explain if she saw a judge or had a lawyer.

Automation has a strong tendency to degrade diligence.

I see this all the time in operational / production settings. Having a loop with automation reviewed and approved by a human degrades very fast. I only approve automation that has a quick path to unsupervised operation.

Oh, probably

I don't see what it has to do with "me too"

Take block:

AFAICT, it was just really badly managed. A long time ago it got about as much share of its main market as it was going to get. They took the cash flow from that and hired a bunch more engineers to try to break into adjacent markets, and failed, and failed and failed.

Now they are just retreating to the steady income from their core business

I see your point, but I'm not sure. I think if that's what they want, the should say "don't police the rules in comments"