Sometimes it helps to automate small things anyway, as practice. I've noticed that as I become more practiced with automation, even the small things take less time (and are less prone to error) than doing things manually.
It's also possible to do partial automation, where you just automate what's easy and finish up manually.
On the flip-side, people who rarely automate things, become accustomed to manually doing things and increasingly miss opportunities to automate/script their workflow...
It's also possible to do partial automation, where you just automate what's easy and finish up manually.