> What's there to be afraid of, so long as your workflows aren't made significantly more painful?

It's more painful.

...more painful workflows

All the workflows my colleagues and I deal with that would be made more painful by this are ones that are on the list of things that should be migrated to machine management. Often because they involve humans touching production systems where no humans actually need to touch production systems.

Can you help me understand what, precisely, this would do in your work that's so dreadful? Perhaps there's something I just don't know.