When GitHub actions came out, I felt bad about myself because I had no desire to learn their new programming language of breaking everything down into multiple

When GitHub actions came out, I felt bad about myself because I had no desire to learn their new programming language of breaking everything down into multiple small GitHub actions. I think you explained quite well what I couldn't put my finger on last time: Building every simple workflow out of a pile of 3rd party apps creates a lot of unnecessary complexity. Since then, I have used GitHub actions for a few projects, but mostly stayed away from re-using and combining actions (except for the obvious use cases of "check out this branch").