That very much depends on the work you are automating away. For much of the business automation I agree. Invoice processing? Automate. Drip campaigns? Automate. Measuring performance of something? Automate.

But - picking the right photo for some restaurant, as GP stated in another comment? Make good UI and perform manually. Alternatively, train NN in background - but it might not make sense in a startup world where the effort for this would be prohibitively high. In the end it's the photos that matter to your business, not that fancy photo picker algorithm that took ages to develop and that you can't sell to anyone else.