I've said it before here on HN I think but I always find it interesting/hilarious to what lengths people go to avoid a little bit of manual work. Like something

I've said it before here on HN I think but I always find it interesting/hilarious to what lengths people go to avoid a little bit of manual work. Like something that literally takes 2 minutes of manually doing the same sequence of click/type combo for 40 items total. Instead they must spend 2 days trying to automate it. And very likely still fail to do so. Then on the other end I once automated a process ('running a report') that took one of the senior Devs at that place an entire day to compile in: exactly one day. Suddenly that report could be run when people actually needed it (once a month) but they only ran it every half year because of cost and blocking a resource for an entire day. Your case feels like it might be somewhere in between (given I have zero context/actual knowledge of what these updates are/why they can't be centralized somehow. Has anyone tried?