Comment by kylegalbraith

As a founder of Depot [0], where we offer our own faster and cheaper GitHub Actions runners, I can assure everyone that this feeling is the majority and not the minority.

Sounds strange to say as someone who has a product that is built around making GitHub Actions exponentially faster to close these feedback loops faster.

But I can honestly say it's only really possible because the overall system with GitHub Actions is so poor. We discover new bottlenecks in the runner and control plane weekly. Things that you'd think would be simple are either non-existent, don't work, or have terrible performance.

I'm convinced there are better ways of doing things, and we are actively building ideas in that realm. So if anybody wants to learn more or just have a therapy session about what could be better with GitHub Actions, my email is in my bio.

[0] https://depot.dev/