Not just compile, but download. In addition to dozens pure-iOS projects (internal apps deployed to users), I have a couple of react-native codebases to support

Not just compile, but download. In addition to dozens pure-iOS projects (internal apps deployed to users), I have a couple of react-native codebases to support Android. Xcode Cloud spends more time downloading npm packages than anything else including compiling. Unlike other CI tools I’ve used, there is no way to Xcode Cloud to maintain a dirty executor or specify dependencies to skip this step. In addition, downloading dependencies fails so often that CI fails a majority of builds which have to be re-run which consumes more minutes. I’m currently working with a client to convince them Jenkins on a Mac they own is cheaper and easier, working through the standard headaches of an IT department who supports thousands of iPhones and Windows machines but doesn’t want to support a single digit number of Mac just because Apple fights any attempt at cross-compiling from anything that’s not a Mac.