Lol, that is such a tragic story that must happen millions of times across the world today. At a previous job, one department was spending 3-4 hours a day manually copying & pasting customer contacts from emails into their CRM. This was in an org with tens of developers, but nothing was done about it for years until my manager happened to catch wind of it and asked me to take a look in my spare time. I wrote an integration in a few hours and those ~40 lines of code have probably saved thousands of hours and dollars by now.
As programmers, we're allergic to manual repetition, but so much of the world runs on that...
> As per PS, have you ever tried to really personalize PS UI to your liking?
When I was young, I used to spend hours doing that, iterating on PS UI configurations, testing them, rearranging and retesting... these days I'm just too old and curmudgeonly to do anything about it except whine, lol. But you're right, I should probably just bite the bullet and do that once and sync it to my account.