My take on Adobe's AI (a.k.a. Artificial "Intelligence"): looks like Adobe's developers went into a coma a decade or so ago, at the hight of HDR craze. Then woke up today and went to pick the brains ("intelligence") of their HDR buddies.
On a related note... are we now really supposed to suffer from Schewe's taste every time we click on the auto button!? As if we haven't suffered enough from his taste in shirts!?