I think the simplest solution would be to just do what the article says and not do all that extra stuff. And I think that that’s what they meant at the end of that comment too.
Gotcha. I totally agree with the sentiment, or rather I should say: all these thoughts come to mind when thinking about setting up partial automation for a process, and I regularly remind myself to keep to simple, and get something working.
The hardest to resist is when you have a similar framework in place for another process, but getting a new process to use that framework is still going to take 4x longer (or whatever) than starting from scratch and getting the initial consistency that the do-nothing approach gives.
