Something along the lines of "hiring heavy equipment, then buying a ticket to the gym, everytime you need this done because you never learned anything else". My neighbours tell me I need heavy equipment to fell my forest, absolutely not, I'll go on foot, respect and fell every single tree I plan to fell, leave no tracks, become stronger and wiser, all for free.
Heavy equipment is not cheap, too, especially if you need an operator with skill comparable with attention to small details that manual laborers have naturally. And it does not spread virally like skills. And it burns carbon and leaves tracks. It has its uses at scale, but not in pilots. Same thing everywhere: I have a pick-and-place robot to assemble my electronics, not even turning it on before I have at least 100-ish boards to assemble; it's not expensive, it's easier than manual labor - but you've got to know the system you build before giving it away to a machine, or you'll have a long and expensive debug session ahead of you, even if you are certain know everything about it, which is totally not the case here.