I've seen a lot of resistance to EG for just this reason. People fear losing their individuality if the let EG do too much work for them.

Yes, perhaps it's true that we have to let some knowledge go, but it doesn't make us stupider (or send us to Jupiter according to my kid's rhyme) if we make up for this by operating closer to the big picture level our clients or senior managers expect fromus.

If we cling too tightly to our coding expertise, I fear management will just view us as trying to protect a cottage industry rather than adding value to the company through good insights.

True, there are times when directly using a PROC (particularly PROC EXPAND in ETS) offers us more than what the equivalent EG dialog offers us. I do fear that people will confuse the limits of EG with the limits of SAS.

My comments are based on EG 4.2.