Not sure if I'm the odd one out here. I thoroughly enjoy making the best of whatever the company wants to use. The flavour of CI/CD can be a debate similar to programming languages

I think it's even worse. Just like ticketing systems, people love to sunk on CI/CD because it's out of the scope of their primary focus (writing software) so having to deal with it is a PITA. The only CI/CD system most people like are the ones that are almost invisible.

The role of a CEO is more to benefit the company than the public. Only time will tell.

I am curious though how something like Moore's Law relates to this. Yes, model architectures will deal with complexity better and the amount of data helps as well. There must be a relation between technology innovation and cost which alludes to effectiveness. Innovation in computation, model architecture, quality of data, etc.