I just don't see github actions, say, as an inherently more complex tool than cron. Or vice versa. Both have a certain essential complexity to getting a schedul

I just don't see github actions, say, as an inherently more complex tool than cron. Or vice versa. Both have a certain essential complexity to getting a scheduled task to run, once you've overcome the initial hurdle of getting to a point where you can use them. Depending on where you're starting from, what tools you're already using, and what ecosystem you're already part of, that initial hurdle is going to be of a different size, but once you're over it, for either case, you're just configuring a job with a schedule, and then hopefully getting to forget about it.