Yes but where do you draw the line? In maya philosophy the line is drawn HERE! Every other automation is for you to do yourself. TRUST me its not hard, infact in the time between theese 2 posts you COULD have learnt it allready!
See if you add this what is to stop people for asking for Scale, underlying surfaces normal orientation, random rotation but turned againts the line of movement, rotation per frame each 10th frame, rotation only half way ariound rotation with a area inside with no allowed rotations, drag direction rotations, aim at enemy starship rotations....
Etc etc etc.
Now thing is thats whar the expressions are there FOR so saying you sghould have button to describe this is like saying well lets push the expressons further away. Now its simple enough to tell with expressions, period. as a bonus if you can do thsi simple expression you are so much closer to the other solutions. If you had the button youd be at this step when you need the other solutions.
Then for the automation. IF you want a button to do this then for gods sake make one, thets what mayas so good at. Learn mel. Imean i never would imagine doing this by hand if i had to do it daily. But thing is automating the task is just copypasting text form one place to another! In my mind not knowing fundamentals of script, no matter how good you are, is saying i dont want to be better.
Anyway if you didnt know the thigs like curve flow and so on are examples of theesekinds of prepackages. A bit over the top elborate but still.
I mean i need a better auto subnetwork suppression feature (this would allow you to suppress parts of modells more ffectively and paint like in zbrush with much more geo than now), wich would need to be embedded into maya core, wich is far more usefyull for everybody concerned. Id rather see the effort put into something usefull, than adding a limitted set of users a option that in all due respect they should be capable of doing themeselves within a half hour. Thing is even if it takes only 30 minutes to implement, theers alot of them, and tehy would be patched in mel level. Now because thye have acces to teh CORE wich you or i never will have, itd be better if they did the core modifications.
Quetion is wich one is more critical. something you can do in 30 minutes and never bother again OR something that you never could be able to do and benefits EVERYBODY on the long run?
Wish for the make me money button, (v2 of make beutifull render please button) while your at it.
PS anyaway a wise man said to me once you shouldnt concentrate on what other apps do easier, concentrate on what the others dont do at all and then rethink if the solution is bad!