You're contrasting this with a more ideal solution. Our company doesn't allocate people's time, so something like this would be regression, but it seems like there are orgs that are much more strict about this, in which case I think this provides a lot of freedom that wasn't once there. It's a matter of where you're coming from.
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You're contrasting this with a more ideal solution. Our company doesn't allocate people's time, so something like this would be regression, but it seems like there are orgs that are much more strict about this, in which case I think this provides a lot of freedom that wasn't once there. It's a matter of where you're coming from.