Do mission-based alarm apps stop working for anyone else after a while?

I’m curious if anyone else has this problem with mission-based alarm apps.

They usually work really well for me at first. Having to solve something, scan something, type something, or do some kind of task definitely helps more than a normal alarm.

But after a while, I feel like my brain starts learning the pattern.

The mission becomes part of the routine, and eventually I can turn the alarm off while I’m still half asleep. Sometimes I wake up later and barely remember doing it.

That made me wonder if the issue isn’t just “make the alarm harder,” but “make the wake-up process less predictable.”

I’ve been experimenting with this idea in a small alarm app (alarmble.app) I’m building for myself. Instead of relying on one or two missions, I added a bunch of different wake-up tasks and started rotating between them so each morning feels a little less automatic.

So far, that has helped me more than using the same mission every day.

For people who use mission-based alarms:

What kind of mission actually keeps working for you long-term?

And have you noticed that some missions stop working once your brain gets used to them?