My old iOS shortcuts usually walked the path of tedious madness for the pure purpose of compatibility. I needed a shortcut that would work equally well on all platforms, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and even on HomePod, and that meant several things: one. I can’t have shortcuts relying on apps that do not exist universally, two. there has to be a way to save data shortcuts have treated, three. any save datas from apps had to be exported and imported from iCloud. With the sandboxing Shortcuts follow, creating a seamless shortcut was rather painful.