Part of the reason UiPath is doing so well is because it raised the bar when compared to its competitors from 'the worst' to 'usable'. Blue Prism is alright, but they're so closed off and proprietary it gets in the way of actually solving the problem. AA is just, as you say, 'the worst'.

I'm not the biggest fan of RPA but it definitely has a use case. Though my hunch is that UiPath is going to be something like the Slack of RPA soon if there isn't any progress in the anti-trust front.

Microsoft is starting a big push with Flow/PowerAutomate, and Microsoft _owns_ the legacy corporate environment where RPA finds all its customers. RPA makes money charging expensive licenses per 'bot', and MS just gave 1000 free licenses of power automate to MS 365 customers (at least, the small NPO I just migrated got them). Good luck to UiPaths sales team going forward.