Hi, welcome to the forum.
I'm looking for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow 
Here I compare Tinkercad with Wokwi: Virtual Online Arduino and ESP32 Simulator - Wokwi Arduino Simulator features - #3 by Koepel
Wokwi has no analog simulation. You could put leds for the L298N signals. It can use the Serial API of the Chrome browser to connect to the real world.
Tinkercad has a L293D, is that close enough ?
The "Automaton" library is not in the Arduino Library Manager. That means that Wokwi can not select it. You can manually upload all the files to a Wokwi project.
Tinkercad has no possibility to upload a file or select an other library then a few included libraries.
There are about 10 or 20 other simulators. I have tested most of them, but Tinkercad and Wokwi are the only two that are actually useful.
Sometimes it is easier to test-run the real project.