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to avoid needing to use automations to populate a record when clicking a button, allow the 'update record' action to use dynamic values as you can currently do using automations.
As the number of automations is limited to 50, this avoids needing to use trivial automations to capture dynamic updates to a record, for example setting a date/time field to the last modified time to note when a change was made, or copying user provided text into another field.