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Yeah, seriously. The entitlement. My favorite was

automated SEO using artificial intelligence;

Most likely he meant generating page keywords/description using the product name and details.

A very fancy way of putting it, but something very common sense from a business perspective.

But still, not something that should be baked into the core platform. Perhaps your idea of how it should work is different from a large portion of merchants. Why should one version or the other become a core part of the platform for every merchant.

Even if the module providing a 'core' feature is written by Magento, it shouldn't be in the core project but should be treated just like any other 3rd party module.

Ultimately you want a core platform that is rock solid and extensible. That's what a good integrator then build out either from the low-end of just adding and configuring OTS modules to the high-end of bespoke modules.

If store A and B sell a product for the same price on all levels, I don't want a search turning up A because they did better SEO. I'd much rather they punish A for gaming the system.

We shouldn't be encouraging this shit, and we be giving the SEO 'experts'[1] the cold shoulder.

[1] About secret algorithms? Yeah, right.

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