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"Obfuscation" and "delusions of grandeur" are practically synonyms for ML and Data "Science" in this industry. I've been around for a while and I've never quite seen something as over-hyped and hyper-glamorized as these two specializations.
Really? Were you around during the dotcom era? Although I'm not old enough, I've heard that OR in the 80s was the same crap.
Linear and quadratic programming are amazing and totally underappreciated. Often they are the fastest way to get useful answers for problems (the solvers got really good over the past few decades).