MacOS kind of had this with AppleScript, including recording. It's a little disappointing that it isn't widespread now but I realize that demand for GUI automation is extremely niche.
Applescript is so clunky and annoying. I have a few applescript launcd functions on my mac for some personal projects, and only because apple forces you to go through stuff like applescript to use stuff like the system notifications. It was a pain as the documentation is just so very poor for applescript, so clearly neglected by anyone at apple even when they built the tool; its not like good documentation only came about in recent years in programming. Then again most of what apple documents is crap. The launchd documentation isn't any better and I get undefined behavior I can't make head or tail of from it (basically functions working fine when ran as a user but failing silently when the same functions are ran through launchd), I'm guessing from some permissions related issue between launchd running as a certain privileged process and maybe the limits of their system integrity protection, I can't be sure because the documentation is so poor. And what is even worse is that there aren't many people using tools like launchd, at least not nearly compared to people who use systemd, so the various stackoverflow or blog posts you could look for reason in these more popular tools are not there for the apple tooling.
