I have empirically determined that the main reason for this problem is the unwillingness to put in the effort to completely automate the work. The most often us

I have empirically determined that the main reason for this problem is the unwillingness to put in the effort to completely automate the work. The most often used argument I get is: it's not worth the effort to completely automate something that one has to perform maybe only once in six months or once per year. This argument is patently flawed and wrong, because it assumes that it's only worth automating something if it is done often enough. Scientifically, "often enough" isn't quantifiable, and that argument completely neglects the repeatability aspect: by fully automating, the steps to perform something are codified and quantified.