It seems like a core argument is the pre-commit tests that runs as commit hooks on the developers computer.

I have worked in a place where they did that, and I think the cons heavily outweighed the pros. I can not push incomplete work to a remote, I can not separate feature development and chores (eg. linting) because I _need_ to fix stuff in order to commit an push, etc.

> Continuous Integration is a model thats tightly tied to how we run version control.

I would say that a pre-commit testing world is much tighter. CI, as many know it, as a passive observer. When stuff fails, it will let you know. You can still merge.

One thing that would be nice, however, would be the ability to run the entire pipeline locally. For GitHub actions, it indeed seems like there are viable options to do that.