"Shouldn't have been there in the first place" is a wild overstatement. We can find better, more efficient ways to do many things. That doesn't mean the underlying functions shouldn't have been there in the first place. Quite the contrary, if we're automating those functions, they're not going away; they're just being integrated into the production model in a different way.
Which may displace a lot of people who have performed those functions in the old way, but the functions are still there.
"Shouldn't have been there in the first place" is an engineer saying that because a computer or AI system can do advanced mathematics, Sir Isaac Newton wasn't needed in the first place.
“Shouldn’t have been there in the first place” is an engineer saying that because a computer or AI system can do advanced mathematics, Sir Isaac Newton wasn’t needed in the first place. “
The statement is so stupid on the face of it that you wonder why how it was said…