You can do a lot of cool things with Shortcuts, they have many of the structures and scripting conventions like loops, variables (Magic variables are super intuitive and easily manipulable), conditions (if else), accessing system state, toggling sensors and capabillities, etc.
Its a very cool thing that even coders/programmers can appreciate given the higher abstraction level and ease of drag-and-drop approach to composing “programs” (==Shortcuts).
It can be a little fussy sometimes, however, and it can take longer to drag around than it would to simply type out the verbatim statements and declarations etc