Mechanical engineer walks around the field and thinks - there is a field. Flowers grows on field. Bees are gathering honey from flowers, doing good for flowers. Sun is shining over whole ecosystem making everything grow. There must be an engineer, who planned that. God exists! I believe in God!
I am very sad to hear this. Yes, this is antipattern, yes, selectors are doomed, but I had so many good experiences of introducing automated integration tests with IDE to QA teams, who later moved to hand-written tests. Learning curve was small and benefits were quick.