They want replaceable parts but human. They want cogs in every vaguely cog shaped hole left in the machine.
We watched literally every industry systematize and nobody said anything or complained and even now people don't seem to understand:
The same thing that happened to the McDonald's summer job happened to jobs reserved for high IQ creatives.
The system is fucked. It worships money and productivity. If you are not money or productivity, you are spare parts. Nothing changes until the money worship dies and the money worship doesn't die until the worship becomes fatal, or at least intolerably painful for its adherents.