But why do we consider that abandoned? It seems like the kind of thing that if it works, why keep updating it? Now if it broke in a new version of Mac and it wasnt updated, sure we could call it that. But from what I can tell this is not the case.
But that is a really good point, I am curious why both continue to exist except for not wanting to break existing Automator... automations? I am not sure what they are called.
Autommator does still have the major functionality (when it works) of being able to record your actions and just do those. Which shortcuts cannot do.
Apparently you can just convert automator to shortcuts: https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/use-your-workflows...
I would bet that it is the "record" functionality keeping it around (beyond just the "multi-year transition" apple said they were doing in 2021), but maybe there are some other power features that are unavailable in shortcuts yet.
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