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I suspect a job shop that does one off custom jobs, repairs, and things of that nature would quite likely benefit from having a manual lathe or two with guys who know how to use them, but a shop that only does production runs may not.
My son has a part time job in a shop like that. They do no production work at all. What they do is custom fabrication, prototypes, machine repair or anything else that walks in the door that isn't a production
job. They have CNC machines and use them if needed, but the majority of their work is on manual machines. Their boss is both an engineer and a machinist, so can provide design advice as well. The range of
skills and the wide variety of work they produce is amazing: they produce large welded assemblies and tiny parts for surgeons. Those guys are machinists!