Totally agree. I've never used Bazel; it sounds a lot like Nuke. I had a coworker whose job was to maintain the CI. His commit messages would look like this sometimes:

> Fix CI issue with blah blah blah

> Hmm that didn't work lets try something from stackoverflow

> Build fix

> Build fix please work

> Please

> I hate my life

> I am tired and hungry, I want to go home

> Stupid yaml

The CTO would call him like a week later to make sure he was okay. This happened often before we switched to Nuke. It rarely happened afterwards. It's awesome being able to debug your CI locally.