[lkbm]

Depends where we're seeing this.

I worked as a high school bureaucrat for several years, and through some simple scripts, I was able to make some tedious data entry tasks vastly faster. It was ugly, hacked together code, with lots of hardcoded values I had to update each semester, but it worked and was way better than doing it all by hand. Low quality code is worse than good quality code, but often better than manual labor.

I want my web browser and my bank to use high quality code, but I want semi-technical people who would otherwise do everything manually to be able to automate tedious portions of their jobs.

(The caveat, of course, being that a buggy script can screw up the thing the thing it's automating must faster than a manual process as well.)