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A singular water molecule is not wet, but add any more and now each molecule has water sticking to it so it's wet

Afaik you won't find a single alternative, bit you'll have to find multiple projects for specific features you're looking for.

For example: Kanata for key remaps, text expansion, mouse input and a whole bunch of other keyboard stuff.

Most automation is done with shell scripts and command line utilities. So stuff like batch renaming you can do this way.

Window automation is DE/WM specific.

So if you could list your DE/WM and the specific kinds of automation, it will be easier to give suggestions.

This comment can make sense if you read it as "the author did not draw enormous bazongas, this giving up the ability for the comic to go viral by the goddess having them". But that's a stretch.