It's true that the mouse is bad at macros. That's not somehow inherent to mousing, though! Operating system designers simply don't seem to care about this. W

It's true that the mouse is bad at macros. That's not somehow inherent to mousing, though! Operating system designers simply don't seem to care about this. Why can't I type control-U 10 and then select a menu item with the mouse, and have it execute 10 times? That works in Emacs. Or record a macro which consists of a combination of keyboard and mouse actions. This shouldn't be hard. (Automator has some "record" functionality but it's so naïve as to be useless. It records the mouse by where on the screen you move it. If you take several seconds to decide which menu item to select, it pauses during playback, too. If you bump the mouse during playback, it will select the wrong menu item.) There seems to be at least one person at Apple who understands the importance, because macOS does support Emacs-style control-U repeats for text editing.