Some things never change. I remember ~20 years ago a bunch of expensive F5s suddenly showing up to our offices because the CTO and enterprise architects were convinced that irules could solve all their performance problems for something that wasn't even cacheable (gaming results) and would have shoved too much of our logic into the underpowered CPUs on them.

They were a much nicer, if overpriced, load balancing alternative to the Cisco Content Switch we were using, though.