Now I think we can get somewhere! Is this an admission that automation is not worth it when the processes or inputs change too often?
If so, then this frequency (which you have given as daily) depend entirely on the business needs in question.
Often, there's no business case to run an automated process daily.
Weekly or even monthly are very common intervals for processes in business. For a process that needs to run monthly, you only get twelve executions in a year. If the inputs change every six months, do you still think spending 60+ commits (as in your settings example) is worth it every six months, when there are cheaper ways to do it with limited human intervention?