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> Why is it that so many people are completely obsessed with replacing all developers and any other white-collar job?

For the same reason people are obsessed with replacing all blue-collar jobs. Every cent that a company doesn't have to spend on its employees is another cent that can enrich the company's owners.

FWIW, Blender, like other open source projects has been dealing with large bandwidth bills due to AI companies repeatedly crawling them. They've been adding additional checks to try to figure out how to stop spending their limited donations on server infrastructure to support bots.

I think you should've be able to access vertex groups from the initial version of geometry nodes. Certainly, at this point, you can dynamically access (and set) arbitrary vertex groups, including loading the names of the vertex groups you want to access from a csv file, or otherwise synthesizing the names using string operations.