[gerdesj]

I used AutoIT to remove old AV from roughly 6000 PCs across 20 odd countries back in 2002. I still use it from Zenworks on some customer sites, 20+ years later.

Old school Windows apps are not "flowing" they generally use a toolkit and AutoIT is able to use the Windows APIs to note window handles, or the text in various widgets and so on and act on them.

These are not complicated beasts - they are largely determinant. If you have to go off piste and deal with moguls, you have a mode called "adlib" where you deal with unusual cases.

I find it a bit unpleasant that you describe part of my job as "untenable". I'm sure you didn't mean it as such. I'm still just as cheap as I was 20 years ago and probably a bit quicker now too!