Certainly thousands, if not hundreds of thousands think so.
By the time I retired from the Army in 2000, the term "PowerPoint Ranger' was a common derisive term for a staff puke who had no other function than jazzing up the commander's briefing slides with as many bells and whistles as possible. I don't recall the source--possibly the Wall Street Journal--but I recall reading a report that said that even unclassified briefings in the Pentagon frequently had to have "Noforn" versions, since so many non-Americans at an all-too typical US PowerPoint presentation were so dazzled by the technology that they got even less out of than the average American did. (Was that "dazzled", or even more "baffled", as in "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with...")
Shortly before I retired, someone ran up a parody of the Rifleman's Creed ("This is my rifle; there are many like it, but this one is mine...") for the PowerPoint Ranger.
And then I ran across this: The Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint format.
Brilliant.
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Holy crap. That is c-r-a-z-y.
Found this link by way of Tamara, by way of The Breda Fallacy.
Interesting viewpoints.
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