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Most automations are just lists of steps with very occasional branching/looping.

I think freeform graph is the wrong UX for that.

A vertical list like in Power Automate Desktop or MIT Scratch seems much better fit.

Agreed. So far, building macros (https://www.plato.io/blog/introducing-macros), we've found that if you provide an easy and immediate way to map program elements to their meaning, non-techies can understand pseudocode in the form of linear lists of actions, even with branching/looping via indentation.

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