Why do droids replace specialists?

[pkco2]

This is pretty irritating. So now that I have researched droids they are automatically replacing specialists like enforcers and forcing them to become unemployed each time a new robot is built... And there are plenty of worker jobs that are available. Synths do the same thing exept will all jobs. Just another irritating glitch for the poorly thought out new system I guess.. But hey! new buttons and toys!

 

[Urza1234]

Because the new job system is stuck at an impasse between trying to satisfy people who want:
a. Pop optimization (or their own personal definition of it)
b. Less micro
and c. Unemployment space fantasy (mostly some dev just loves the idea of unemployment)

If you give the player more control over where new pops go it makes the anti-micro crowd mad.
The current game has little enough pop-optimization as it is, but currently pretty much the only time pops will switch jobs is when they are newly grown/built, and if you take that away it makes the optimization crowd even more mad.
If you solve the problem by getting rid of the extremely long demotion times then that 1 dev's happy stick will go soft.

 

[RoverStorm]

So now that I have researched droids they are automatically replacing specialists like enforcers and forcing them to become unemployed each time a new robot is built...

Would your primary species happen to be weak?

I'll just copy-paste these "job weight values", which determine which pop gets a job, from the previous post someone had of robots replacing enforcer jobs....

0 if "can_be_soldier = no"
1.5 if they are already an enforcer
0.5 if has the "weak" trait
2 if "resilient"
2 if "very strong"
1.5 if "strong"
1.1 if cybernetic
1.1 if (insert long list of special event-traits you probably don't have)
Bunch of modifiers if you are a police state, which is impossible as a shared burdens country, so I'll skip
10 if enslaved under "Battle Thralls" type (not relevant: robots are always a unique type of slavery)
0.1 if "can_take_servant_job = yes". Which basically means domestic servitude slavery or robots with domestic protocol trait
0.2 if not a full citizen and not a robot

 

[Less2]

and c. Unemployment space fantasy (mostly some dev just loves the idea of unemployment)

Not so much unemployment as refuses to work. Unemployment is when you can't find a job. Stellaris pops are just retarded freeloading idiots that cause planetary destabilization for no good reason when jobs are plenty available.