Good God I hate CI. Just let me run the build automation myself dammit! If you're worried about reproducibility make it reproducible and hash the artifacts, make people include the hash in the PR comment if you want to enforce it.
The amount of time people waste futzing around in eg Groovy is INSANE and I'm honestly inclined to reject job offers from companies that have any serious CI code at this point.
It takes more work (serious CI code) to make CI run anywhere, such as your own computer. So you prefer companies that just use GHA? You can't get simpler than that.
The amount of time people waste futzing around in eg Groovy is INSANE and I'm honestly inclined to reject job offers from companies that have any serious CI code at this point.