Had a project where the tedium work was cranked to 11. I automated that because I sure was not going to do that for every time I wanted to deploy some code. I also automated the semi complex task that you only do every 2-3 years. Because I sure was not going to remember the steps and I am 100% sure it would just get lost in our sea of documentation. Spinning a new env is mostly just running some scripts instead of days of filling in fields. Computers do the same over and over exactly the way you told them to. Use them. On the other side of that it is dead easy to over complicate something. I am dealing with a project like that now. 5 layers of indirection, model view, the testing framework is solid, the whole thing. It is a single form app with 3 buttons and 4 edit controls.
