Isn't it hypocritical to say not to automatically import data from the network, but then release NetBox Discovery?

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The NetBox maintainers seem to take a strong stance against automatically importing data from the network, and also provide this as guidance. For example this is stated at: https://netboxlabs.com/docs/netbox/en/stable/introduction/ "As such, automated import of live network state is strongly discouraged." This point seems to be repeated across various issues and discussions over time in many places.

However then they go and release NetBox Discovery: https://netboxlabs.com/news/netbox-labs-announces-new-netbox-discovery-and-netbox-assurance-products/ .

Isn't that hypocritical? What am I missing here?

I personally am currently in the process of a greenfield deployment of DCIM tooling in a small legacy cluster that we don't currently have any cataloging for, and it's my job to get the (documentation) system bootstrapped. It would be helpful to have convenient tooling for getting the initial data into NetBox so that it can become a source of truth.