One might argue that the things that could be taught as part of such a standardized methodology would either be extremely generic, or can and should be automate

One might argue that the things that could be taught as part of such a standardized methodology would either be extremely generic, or can and should be automated. "Design patterns" and "idioms" are definitely helpful and necessary for practical reasons, but to me they frequently seem like good candidates for automatization. Maybe in an ideal world, the parts of a solution that are "unique", i.e., not well-known and established, are even the only ones that should be required to be specified by a human.