“GitHub Actions is not good. It’s not even fine. It has market share because it’s right there in your repo, and that’s about the nicest thing I can say about it.”
GitHub Actions won by convenience, not quality. The YAML is fragile, permissions are opaque, the marketplace is a dumpster fire, and you’re renting compute that can disappear. Most teams don’t realize they’re slowly hemorrhaging productivity until they switch to something with actual CI/CD design.