[al2o3cr]

"Imagine if you had a telephone system in which you had to listen to everyone else’s conversations until somebody finally spoke to you."

Now imagine that everybody on the alternative secret phone system is flying around hundreds of passengers who'll be killed if somebody misdirects a call with important instructions.

I've found that, in general, if one's reaction to a practice is "WTF, is literally everybody else in this industry stoopid?" it usually means the opposite...