Gherkin is not a test automation tool. It never was. Yet here we are, five years into your SDET career, and you're staring at a feature file that reads like a step-by-step manual for a human tester.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/qawalah/is-your-bdd-framework-just-a-fancy-way-to-write-manual-test-cases-in-gherkin-203k)