[antasvara]

In the broad sense, people are in favor of automation. Most people aren't clamoring for the days before the stove, dishwasher, and car (all automated versions of past technologies).

That being said, I think a lot of people are against automation when it does something worse than the manual version. Think automated customer service over a human being.

[xbmcuser]

Most people don't like change so are resistant to it. It's the same with electric cars a lot of people are resistant to it because of false range anxiety but when people actually use ev for extended period most of then stay with electric.