Algorithms (generally) are suffering some very bad press at the moment. Remember that algorithms are pretty cool and useful and great; it's just that some aren't put together all that well, and that's not the fault of the algorithms. They're just doing what they've been told to.

Spoons are pretty cool and useful and great, but if someone designs a spoon with holes in it and spikes around the rim then it won't do a very good job of being a spoon. That's not an argument that spoons are terrible and to be avoided. It's evidence that that spoon-designer...

... shouldn't be allowed near the spoon-designing software again.

If a spoon-designer only ever socialises with people who drink tea and have no idea that some people might want to wolf gobfulls of Ben & Jerry's they will probably design a very small spoon for dainty purposes. That they haven't designed a spoon for ice cream troughers is...

... not the spoon's fault. It's a result of the designer not aiming their spoon at that particular audience. Don't ridicule algorithms; bring the people who designed the one that didn't do what it should to task.