Totally agree with you. I just disagreed with the OP's statement that it's not "real automation" just because some triggers don't work without user input.
> And I should be able to consent to Shortcuts doing things in the background without my explicit permission, much like I can set up cron jobs on my home PC.
Again, this is now the case for many triggers (not all, I don't think) on iOS 14.
Yeah, the "not all" is what I was referring to. I should be able to do it for everything, not cherry-picked actions.
My guess though, is that they've already got this working, they're just going to wait until iOS 15 to drop it. The integration of Shortcuts into iOS has been slow but steady ever since they were acquired, and I think eventually it will do everything we want.
Personally I don’t see shortcuts having “everything we want” until they merge iOS and macOS automation. I do think it will eventually happen, but I think it will indeed be slow and steady, and will take a lot of engineers pushing for automation, which isn’t always a flashy selling point, strangely enough...
> And I should be able to consent to Shortcuts doing things in the background without my explicit permission, much like I can set up cron jobs on my home PC.
Again, this is now the case for many triggers (not all, I don't think) on iOS 14.