This is a simple solution for verifying that a document hasn't been altered after the fact. What it doesn't solve for is the permanence of the document itself, i.e. the central authority owning the S3 bucket can easily delete the file. Using something like IPFS can improve this model.
I have hope that some companies are starting to understand this and we'll have –hopefully– a course correction. What has become common is unsustainable.
A few companies are starting to understand this, I think what DHH and Basecamp are doing is more the future. Giving people's lives outside of work as seemingly a first class priority, which sounds weird to say as a new notion, but yet here we are - https://basecamp.com/about/jobs
Well, no. But a recent Freakonomics podcast talked about the idea of 'temptation bundling', which I'm curious to try out. The premise is you restrict yourself to only do something you like with something you don't e.g. you can only be on Reddit or HN while you're at the gym.