Automator doesn't have 'Launch Application' action

I'm trying to use the application Automator > Service to create a keyboard shortcut to launch an application. Under 'Library' should be an action called 'Launch Application', however this isn't there.
Do I need to download actions from somewhere? I've tried searching for it on my computer (no luck) and searching online for help regarding this missing action but all I find are guides on what I'm trying to ultimately do.
Any ideas why this action is missing?

Well for anyone with this same problem, I figured out how to find it plus several other actions that didn't show up initially too.
I went to ~/Library/Automator and dragged all the files here to the desktop. Then, I just launched Automator again and the actions were all there.
Just goes to show that sometimes it's better to search more and figure out how to do things yourself because "help" forums like this one and its users are utterly useless.

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