I think this is more of an issue with people misusing CI systems, your gitlab-CI/Jenkins/concourse/etc shouldn’t have any real logic in it, it’s just glue code.

I think this is more of an issue with people misusing CI systems, your gitlab-CI/Jenkins/concourse/etc shouldn’t have any real logic in it, it’s just glue code. Bazel/Gradle/Maven/etc tend push you in the right direction, bash, etc dont. Or to put it succinctly, you need both a build system and a CI system, they are not the same thing.