Many moons ago, in a galaxy far far away, I worked in usability and human factors for a large computer OEM. Which made me "persona non-grata" because I was the one who got to tell a bunch of developers that their superbly elegant batch of code had relatively little bearing on the bahvior patterns of real human beings walking around in the streets. Who'd ultimately USE the software.

Philosophically, where do we stand, in the world? It seems to me that we're getting too close to a world where we build machines (and code) with an intention to do certain things, and then users have to adapt to the automation.

That flies a bit in the face of much of the original philosophy behind the purpose of automation... namely that IT is adaptable to serve human needs and desires.

What you're describing here sounds like it is trying to come back across that divide.