I would argue not all manual work is a bug nor does all manual work need to be automated. For example, if you have a manual task that needs to be done once per

I would argue not all manual work is a bug nor does all manual work need to be automated. For example, if you have a manual task that needs to be done once per quarter, is it really worth investing time and money to automate it? In contrast, if you have a manual task that you do multiple times per day, then perhaps that's worth investing resources to automate that task.