I usually try to answer on SF the same way I do consulting.

Here is the answer to your question, THEN here are my recommendations.

Not answering the question by dodging the subject simply because it makes no sense from your point of view is not very usefull.

As a professional, especially consultant, we are asked to do things that makes no sense but was decided well above our heads. When working in very large corporations, it's a plague.

Sometimes you end up managing software and/or devices that you didn't choose. Sometimes you have to deal with poor architecture that you have no control over.