I had a similar experience but with MSSQL, was invited to join some meetings with MS Sales folks. I quickly learned the project was never meant to succeed, but was simply leverage to negotiate a better contract.
Once you buy gold, you don't have to rely on other people continuing to burn resources indefinitely. You pay upfront for the cost of mining, and that's it.
They'll resent you insofar as it was confrontational vs. collaborative. If you can incept your conclusion into others they will not resent you. It's the whole raison d'etre of the Socratic method.
I had someone tell me, earnestly, that they hated me because it turned out that I was alright right. Not in the stubborn sense either.
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