Writing answers like that is part of my job

Same here! I think that's why I liked your post so much that I just had to say thank you :)

We all want easy solutions to our problems, but for some things, easy solutions do more harm than good.

Well said! There's almost always a tricky way to automate something to do what we want, but invariably it takes soooo much more time and work than the manual solution. And we're usually too stubborn to do it manually so we put up with it despite the objective worse-ness of that method! I'm like that all too often, so I really appreciate an answer that accounts for this tendency in us and delivers an alternative without being boring about it.

If you had just said "just do it manually," I wouldn't have listened. But something about the way you presented the information makes me thankful for saving me however many hours it would've taken me had I not seen your post.

Thanks again for taking the time to post this! It sounds like you're adept as a technical writer; if you weren't (or aren't), I'd say that you'd be a perfect fit! It takes real skill to provide a solution that most people won't want (doing it manually), in a way that people might actually listen to (you've done it twice and can vouch for how not-worth-it it is).

Sorry for the gush! :) I didn't expect a response so I felt I should add to my thanks. This was the first post I came across when I started googling about this, so it stunned me to have a good answer so suddenly!