While the user experience can be lacking with a carousel sometimes, I've definitely seen it used as an internal solution to deal with competing stakeholder interests that fight over homepage real estate, and would otherwise turn into a huge waste of time.
You can arm-chair argue about fixing the underlying problem instead, but sometimes you have to be pragmatic and just placate and move on..
While the user experience can be lacking with a carousel sometimes, I've definitely seen it used as an internal solution to deal with competing stakeholder interests that fight over homepage real estate, and would otherwise turn into a huge waste of time.
You can arm-chair argue about fixing the underlying problem instead, but sometimes you have to be pragmatic and just placate and move on..