You could do this with a nicer cli library, so you could show the checklist and running output of each stage, which would be nice regardless of what steps are a

You could do this with a nicer cli library, so you could show the checklist and running output of each stage, which would be nice regardless of what steps are automated. My main issue with that is that a do nothing shell script is so easy to get started with that it's hard not to complete it, and your efforts may be better used automating one of the steps. You may get lost in a fun but not that productive quagmire of which TUI library and how to structure everything.