Comment by flohofwoe

> I feel like Github actions should just be a call to some bash or python file. Bash has its issues so I prefer python

...and that's how it is supposed to be used. The YAML file is mainly there for defining the runtime environment (e.g. the operating system or docker image to run in), and to describe the job dependency tree. The actual actions to execute should be delegated to scripts outside the GH YAML.