Well said, that’s exactly what I was getting at. Apple has a Shortcut command that can switch to BFU - it’s called Reboot - but they specifically prevent users from setting it up to run on a schedule of their convenience. They might be afraid of accidental boot loops, or breaking wake up alarms, or something else - they haven’t published reasoning anywhere I’ve seen. But I think it’s pretty poor of them to restrict the feature.

If Apple really cared, they would make it so that a Shortcut that performed the Reboot action was allowed to run on a schedule, unattended. But no, that’s specifically disallowed.