The four questions that decide an automation platform faster than any feature list.

Ask: who maintains it, what does it connect to, what happens when it breaks, can you leave. Everything else is detail.

Myth: more integrations mean a better platform. Reality: you need five solid ones, not five hundred you will never touch.

Do this: score tools on the connections you actually use. Not this: count features on a comparison page.

A platform with fewer connectors but readable errors beat one with hundreds we could not debug.

Feature lists sell. Failure modes decide.