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SYSE.39:2 - Problem

A provider can appear more efficient by making users perform the same work themselves. Tickets disappear while practitioners spend more time diagnosing, copying values or learning internal machinery.

Automation can preserve the underlying cause and add its own maintenance, exceptions and failure risk. Counting automatic completions or saved operator clicks misses whether the whole supported task became less burdensome and remained correct.