My main grip with Github is that it's pushing more tie in features to own the development experience even further. Github started as a community development hub, now trying to swallow us all, owning each bit of the development process to then own the market.
I don't have any affection for aws or gcp either, their attempt to dominate as de facto infrastructure and software provider is scary.
We don't need github actions. Spinning up machines that run cook books that can do anything, even at scale is ultimately more flexible and platform agnostic. If that's time consuming to make it work at scale, providers dedicated to that are out there.
My main gripe with it that it has the same effect as MS Teams: Execs see that a new product enters the market, with a vendor they already have agreements with, and it's either bundled in for free or relatively cheap. Being the right solution for the job has already lost at that point.
