Also while I'm at it, the entire premise of runbooks is backasswards. If you can specify the steps to take so clearly that you can just follow them written down then you could write them in code and a machine could do it better.

Don't have the facilities to turn your runbooks into code? Sounds like you're ready for the first step up the operational ladder to victory. Making that possible.

Runbooks are programs with the worst possible calling convention: copy paste.