My microwave (a Panasonic combo model with bake/grill functions) allows programming up to three sequential cooking steps. Any of a delay, microwave, bake, grill or bake+grill combo.
It’s most excellent for frozen processed bullshit, as you can program it to in sequence run low-power defrost, then high-power heating, and finally bake for crispy exterior.
Equally would work for microwave-delay-microwave. No need to vacate your chair until completion.
I’d have been pretty happy to be able to update it to fix the dishwasher that came with our house.
It could not, no matter what you did, resume a cycle. If it was paused for any reason, the only way out was to power it off and start a new wash.
The drain pump also sounded like shaking a soup can full of nuts and bolts, which contributed more to it being replaced than did the shonky electronics.