Having to use actions for ssh/rsync always rubbed me the wrong way. I’ve recently taken the time to remove those in favor of using the commands directly (which is fairly straightforward, but a bit awkward).

I think it’s a failure of GitHub Actions that these third party actions are so widespread. If you search “GitHub actions how to ssh” the first result should be a page in the official documentation, instead you’ll find tens of examples using third party actions.