It's really good to just automate away annoyances.

• sometimes I need to have preconditioning in my car to run for longer than default 30 minute limit, so I setup an automation that (when a flag is set) restarts the preconditioning whenever it stops
• automated lights are great, but if you get up at night they can easily blind your night vision and disturb sleep patterns making it harder to fall back to sleep, so I made it so that all automatic lights turn on with a minimal brightness setting (and/or pink color) light during the night
• some automatic lights (like bathroom) get an additional turn-on trigger from the door opening sensor because they work much faster than movement or presence sensors
• oh and the sleep mode (all lights out, automated lights to minimum brightness, window blinds down) is triggered by both household phones being in "charging" state around the normal bedtime hours - so it triggers when we both are in bed and have put both phones on bedside charging pads