I wonder if GitHub actions was a bad idea? Like maybe it's being abused for other kinds of compute besides just builds? And even builds themselves can require a lot of compute. I've only recently had a repo there where I wanted to do builds to make a release (both linux binaries and WASM) and whenever I do that tag and wait a few minutes for those builds to finish I think about all the other projects/repos out there on GitHub doing the same.
I'm really kind of surprised they let us do that - like, why didn't they just have you upload the binaries after building on your local machine?
> why didn't they just have you upload the binaries after building on your local machine?
You can do that already with GH Releases. Actions is if you want CI/CD managed by GitHub. And you can also use your own machines via self-hosted runners.