Your idealism is so sweet it makes my teeth hurt.<p>There&#x27;s plenty of work for everyone. No need to call what other people do &quot;trivial&quot; or demean them for not &quot;automating&quot; something after having done it once.<p>FWIW, automating something can easily be a job orders of magnitude more difficult than doing the original job. It might require capabilities and resources which far exceed what is available at the organization.<p>Moreover, automation is a complicated continuum of solutions. If you&#x27;re talking about REAL WORLD computing problems more complex than can be handled by a bash script, NO, you don&#x27;t automate after solving a problem once.