I Built the Same AI Pipeline in Zapier, Make, and n8n - Here’s Where They Broke

Automation s are easy. You watch a 5-minute YouTube video, drag a trigger to an action, and feel like you've just automated your entire business. Then month two starts. That's when you realize that "one-click" simplicity is a trap. Most teams don’t switch from Zapier to n8n because of a missing integration. They switch because their Zapier bill exploded, their Make scenarios became impossible to debug, or they finally accepted that building logic in a GUI is harder than just writing a line of code.