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The Do Nothing Scripting [1] is an approach that I feel recognizes the difficulty of automation by starting out with a script that just tells you what to do like a checklist. Once you've used it to fully document all the exceptions, etc. you can then start building the automation.

An approach like this seems to give more weight to the fact that just figuring out a way to document exactly what needs to be done is often the hardest part and if you get that right before you start writing automation code, it might make make the automation much more efficient.

[1] https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...