I agree with your point overall, I just want to add that some DevOps efforts aren't to save DevOps time, but to prevent errors. When you make a change manually

I agree with your point overall, I just want to add that some DevOps efforts aren't to save DevOps time, but to prevent errors. When you make a change manually, there's a chance that you forget something, have a typo, etc. Those problems disappear when those same things are automated.