The automation side of Apple has been moribund for many a year. It's almost like they can't bring themselves to make the hard decisions that they need to make:

The automation side of Apple has been moribund for many a year. It's almost like they can't bring themselves to make the hard decisions that they need to make: kill off AppleScript, burn out the dead wood, focus on standardizing on one system wide scripting language that is well documented supported by a first class toolchain. Although in this case I think the rot started much earlier with the abandonment of HyperCard under Jobs 2.0. I remember in the 90s many small business built their own HyperCard stacks to run the business and it made a lot of people Mac owners even in the dark days of 92-97. Imaging having the same system today available across the platform, especially on the iPad. You can see the shoots of the idea there in the form of Playgrounds, Workflow etc but they need to think much bigger.