The instant gratification is absolutely there. II understand people fall for the siren song, I really do. I am falling for it too. It's so nice to not have to spend hours upon hours backtracking through undecipherable code and configs. You set Caude upon the task, walk away to have a coffee, have a yap with your other colleagues, and come back to a nice and easy to read overview over what's (likely) going wrong, and a single button press to have it have a go at fixing the problem.
But then what's absolutely missing is the sense of accomplishment over having learned how that legacy system works, the feeling of doing your colleagues proud for solving an issue they couldn't, and going home just feeling good about yourself.
Instead of that you go "ah cool, let's continue", type
/new and move on, not having learned a thingThis isn't why I spent 11 years learning about computer science