I see this same sentiment comment in every one of these threads, and that reductionist view seems to ignore the things that make CI valuable: conditional stages

I see this same sentiment comment in every one of these threads, and that reductionist view seems to ignore the things that make CI valuable: conditional stages, caching, passing artifacts from one to another, secret management, etc If the retort is "well, just implement those things in your shell scripts" then at that point one has reimplemented Earthly in shell which feels objectively worse