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In my experience nothing drives casino management more than greed and reducing salaries, sick days, medical, retirement etc is a major goal of many a short sighted manager.
I have limited experience with these kind of table games. Have seen blackjack tables with a dealer who just pressed buttons while each player had a screen. Saw another with a video of a dealer who dealt the cards to each player's screen. What I have never seen during these visits was a single player playing these machines. In fact, one casino had zero seats open on any of their 15 or so tables with people waiting for someone to leave while the auto table sat empty. On my next visit to that casino the automated table was gone. A pit who worked there and I have known for about 15 years, told me that at first the dealers had planned to bad mouth that table but the players were bad mouthing the idea of it so loudly that most dealers just shrugged and agreed.

But what is happening is firms such as Shufflemaster, Aliance Gaming and other producers of these devices will continue to come up with computerized tables in one form or another to increase their profits while pandering to the greed of casinos. You can come up with a product that is a complete failure but if your patent application and your salesman says that it will cut employees, cut comps, get more hands per hour and prevent possible advantage play, the casinos will buy it. Some good examples are the continuous shuffle machine, sold to get more hands per hour and stop card counting. Sure there are still plenty of these things on the floors, but is there one on a high limit table anywhere? Certainly not in Vegas and to find a $25 one you need to be in town during a big fight.
Mindplay21 also comes to mind. Sold to reduce the number of pits needed and to cut the amount of comps given to table game players. It also was supposed to id card counters. Well the pits figured this out and the machines became very very slow (perhaps with pit help or perhaps they just did not work right), players probably never figured out that there are no comps for restroom breaks, during fills or if new cards are brought in, but fled from the tables because no player wants to play against a casino device that knows the exact order of every single card NOT YET DEALT! But it also was supposed to ID cardcounters and it did a good job when it came to novice counters who probably would not have won anyway. Expert counters with a little understanding of Mindplay's workings and teams it had no defense for, just ask the oldtimes at the Hilton.

But the firms like Shufflemaster will continue to come up with products and casino management driven by greed will continue to buy them and sometimes they may actually come up with a winner, so everyone dealer, pit, pit clerks etc must be aware that the boss is looking for a way to make your job obsolete.

Ros