I completely agree. Windows had a drag-and-drop keyboard mapping utility twenty years ago. And Mac OS has automator and applescript, with capabilities windows and linux can only dream of since it requires taking a top-down approach with your language and your compiler and basically forcing people through the narrow gates of xcode so that all the compiled binaries get their dictionaries for interfacing with the osa scripting stuff

Meh. OSX and Windows can dream upon upgrading everything with Unix/Linux utilities.

Half of these crap can be solved with xdotool/wmctrl and some scripts. Everything else it's maked to be scripted. Cron, package managers, X11 events, notifications...

One guy posted here an smart automation menu sequence to create a jar from a class within Eclipse. Any competent Unix programmer would create that for Scite, Gvim, Emacs or whatevers with an external script (man java and man javac, FFS) in seconds.