Meanwhile, I'm documenting my unreleased web framework and thinking about CI. Everything I've ever heard about GH Actions is is that it's terrible. I know for a fact Circle CI is terrible and has a huge carrying cost. Talk me out of just using ECS and bash.

TBH, All I've ever needed out of CI is: 1) tell me if the build passed and kick off a deploy, 2) if tests failed show the me terminal output, and 3) let me run tests using the environment CI is using.

Every CI I've used (over 20+ years) does (1) fine and utterly fails at (2) and (3).