Or as was put to me once, sales managers have no problem firing people. And that includes people who just had the bad luck to have their supporter at some company leave and be replaced by someone who favors a competitor. Or a project just gets put on hold because of budgets. I suspect many developers wouldn't appreciate being evaluated every quarter in no small part on factors that they have at best limited influence over.

You underestimate future AI tech (from 10-50 years from today) even more than you think I underestimate sales skills. The tech will completely blow your mind away, and you don't even see it coming ;)

At that point why would you even have AI sales?

If this tech is going to be so amazing, it'll be better served by being a procurement/buyer system.

"Hey AI, what CRM system should I use [based on all the knowledge you have of my business already]?"

Azure chatbot: Dynamics E7

correct, no need for salespeople