There was a post here a few weeks ago reminding us of the dangers of this approach. I don't have the link but the essence is here:

After a process gets automated, people forget the details of how to do the work manually. Now, when the automation breaks (and it will break at some point. It takes a huge amount of work to make these things failsafe and scripting doesn't really encourage robustness) -- no one remembers the details and fixing the issue is more difficult and requires specialized knowledge that is no longer common in the organization.