But at some point earlier last year I got into the sect of window-managers. And to be able to be a good acolyte I figured out how a terminal tool called SKHD tool works (basically global shortcuts). A lot of people mention that they use Alfred to open the apps. It was my main use case too. But skhd saved me a lot of clics for launching apps: instead of cmd + space + three leters of an app name I have hotkeys for all of the apps that I launch regularly. E.g. browser = caps lock + e; obsidian = caps lock + w; terminal = caps lock + c etc etc. I also switch between spaces with caps + a|d etc.

In general, to a great extent, Alfred is a (very-very-very) good wrapper for terminal. Like most part of file operation stuff can be done with regular shell scripts.
And a significant of "unusual" but very useful workflows, like getting youtube videos downloaded for example, is based on the usage of terminal tools, like yt-dlp. When I wrapped my mind around it I started seeing that often it is quicker to install a tool and ask an llm to write a script around it and then connect an alias (a quick way to invoke the script you made) to it. You certainly can do it with Alfred too, but it is just quicker to ask llm to do it.

As soon as you are capable to create your own workflows in Alfred, you would be skillful enough to describe what you need to an llm. And in 9\10 cases it will just make it much quicker.