MFM,
I worked a lot on ALU equipment and I would not call it “crap”.
It is sometimes instable, but it is cheap and provides many excellent O&M, Performance Management and Supervision features…
I don’t know how is the OMCR in Ericsson today, but a while ago, the ALU OMC-R was clearly ahead of its time ! Not even talking about RNO/NPO…