Focus Modes - Is That the Only Way to Automate?

To trigger do not disturb mode on previous versions of Mac OS required some very serious hacking. Now with focus modes, there's just absolutely no no automation possible. Shortcuts is amazingly powerful and it can do a lot of stuff. But some of us would rather write a script or an app to do things in a different way. And those choices have been taken away from us. The power users have been increasingly neglected over the last, you know, five, 10 years.